DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Children, Welfare and the State

Jim McKechnie editor Michael Lavalette editor Barry Goldson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:19th Nov '02

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Children, Welfare and the State cover

`A good foundation for those intent on further research′ - ChildRight

`It is intelligent, lively, clear, and well written′ -Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent at Canterbury

`This is an excellent source book which is up-to-date and covers key debates on childhood in an accessible way′ - Professor Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of `children′ and `childhood′ within the social sciences. Children, Welfare and the State provides readers with a comprehensive critical introduction to modern childhood studies.

In addition to engaging with the broad theoretical debates within the `new′ sociology of childhood and developmental psychology the book:

- Explores key questions in relation to researching childhood, children′s agency and social constructionist perspectives;

- Traces historical and contemporary developments in social policy responses to children and childhood;

- Examines the primary sites of state intervention in regulating and shaping children′s lives.

- Re-states the primary significance of social class and other structural divisions in understanding children′s experiences of childhood;

- Systematically assesses the impact of inequality and poverty on children and childhood.

Children, Welfare and the State has been tailored to appeal to those studying children and childhood within social policy, sociology, psychology, criminology, history, social work and youth and community work courses.

`A good foundation for those intent on further research′ - ChildRight

`It is intelligent, lively, clear, and well written′ -Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent at Canterbury

`This is an excellent source book which is up-to-date and covers key debates on childhood in an accessible way′ - Professor Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow

ISBN: 9780761972327

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 550g

212 pages