Childhood Studies - B - Oxford Bibliographies
Best Interest of the Child
Johanna Schiratzki
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Best Interest of the Child Introduction The study of the principle of the best interests of the child—or with notions used synonymously in the...
Boy Scouts/Girl Guides
Jay Mechling
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Boy Scouts/Girl Guides Introduction The rise of organizations created by adults for children and youth was made possible by several historical...
Bronfenbrenner, Urie
Jonathan Tudge
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Urie Bronfenbrenner Introduction Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917–d. 2005) was born in Russia but moved to the United States at age six. In an aut...
Child Beauty Pageants
Hilary Levey Friedman
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Child Beauty Pageants Introduction Child beauty pageants are one of the most controversial and vilified of all children’s activities. While ad...
China, Japan, and Korea
Vanessa L. Fong
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
China, Japan, and Korea Introduction Sociologists, anthropologists, and historians have focused on diversity, inequality, and historical transf...
Class
Gillian Evans
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Class Introduction Social class is not generally studied in terms of childhood, but there are good reasons for doing so. A significant proportio...
Congenital Disabilities
Rosalyn Benjamin Darling
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Congenital Disabilities Introduction Congenital disabilities are those that are present at birth. Because the nature of their acquisition diff...
Consumer Culture, Children and
Daniel Thomas Cook
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children and Consumer Culture Introduction Social research on children as consumers (in the case of this article, up to teenage years) arose in...
Critical Approaches to Children’s Work and the Concept of Child Labor
Michael Bourdillon
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Critical Approaches to Children’s Work and the Concept of Child Labor Introduction In much of human history, and in the majority world today, ...
Disability
Sonali Shah
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Disability Introduction Traditionally, disability was considered to be a personal trouble, as opposed to the social issue and public policy co...
Discipline and Punishment
George W. Holden
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Discipline and Punishment Introduction The discipline and punishment of children by parents is among the most commonly investigated topics in d...
Discrimination
Christia Spears Brown
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is remarkably complex. At its most simple, discrimination involves harmful actions toward others bec...
Disney, Walt
Brenda Ayres
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Walt Disney Introduction Walt Disney was born in Chicago on 5 December 1901, the youngest of four sons, with a sister to follow. In 1906 the f...
Early Childhood
Glenda MacNaughton
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Early Childhood Introduction Early childhood is the period of childhood between birth and eight years of age. While the provision of targeted e...
Education
Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Education Introduction Colloquially, “education” usually means “schooling,” and thus this bibliography focuses on schooling, although it will b...
Environment, Children and the
Louise Chawla, Debbie Flanders Cushing, Laura Healey Malinin, Illène Pevec, Willem van Vliet, Kelly Zuniga
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children and the Environment Introduction Children and the environment cover a broad, interdisciplinary field of research and practice. The soc...
Eugenics
Kieron Sheehy
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Eugenics Introduction Charles Darwin (b. 1809–d. 1882) published On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). These texts in...
Female Genital Cutting
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Female Genital Cutting Introduction Female genital cutting (FGCs; also known as female circumcision or female genital mutilation) affects milli...
Feral and "Wild" Children
Michael Newton
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Feral and “Wild” Children Introduction The term feral children has been taken as applying to those who have endured three very different kinds...
Food
Deborah Albon
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Food Introduction The area of “children and food” contains work from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, dietetics, and...
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