Socialising children

Summary: Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children understand the process of socialization as an embodied, biographical experience at home, at school and in the neighbourhood. Through close analysis of what children have to say, the book shows how children actively learn from and contribute to the mundane practices and interactions of everyday social life. Through these experiences they get to know about social norms, rules and values and also develop their sense of self and identity. Working from this child-centred perspective and drawing on recent theoretical ideas about personal life and the individual, the book demonstrates the valuable contribution that childhood studies can make to long-standing sociological debates about processes of social reproduction and social change. --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780230300330 (h.c.)
ISBN: 9781137317339 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1137317337 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0230300332
Physical Description: remote
viii, 204 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Personal Lives -- 2. Key Concepts, New Understandings? -- 3. Family Lives -- 4. Interacting Lives -- 5. Embodied, Emotional Lives -- 6. Institutional Lives -- 7. Biographical Lives -- 8. Afterword: Towards a Child Centred Perspective on Socialization.