Socialising Children

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.

Author: A. James
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/30/2013
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230300330

About the Author
Allison James is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK and is also Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway. As one of the pioneers of the new social studies of childhood she has carried out extensive empirical and theoretical research into children's culture. Her previous publications include Constructing Childhood (with A. L. James), European Childhoods (with A. L. James) and Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life (with A. Khørholt and V. Tingstad).