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Children and Animals

Gail F. Melson

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Children and Animals Introduction The study of children’s development traditionally has focused on children’s relationships with other humans....

Children and Politics

Nigel Thomas

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Children and Politics Introduction Children’s relation to politics can be understood in a variety of different ways, including the impact of p...

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...

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...

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...

Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives

Barry Schneider

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Friends and Peers: Psychological Perspectives Introduction In the first years of the formal study of psychology, from the late 19th century th...

Gender and Childhood

Anna Mae Duane

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

Gender and Childhood Introduction The organization of this bibliography reflects the evolving, often contradictory state of scholarly work on ...

Globalization

Elizabeth Chin

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Globalization Introduction Globalization is generally defined as a set of processes and contexts emerging out of the nexus of capitalism, tech...

Hispanic Childhoods (U.S.)

Alejandro E. Brice

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Hispanic Childhoods (United States) Introduction Hispanics, or Latinos (these two terms are used interchangeably throughout this article), are...

History of Childhood in America

Susan Miller

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

History of Childhood in America Introduction The history of childhood and youth is a relatively new field in American history that has grown e...

Infancy and Ethnography

Tobias Hecht

Subject: Childhood Studies »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Infancy and Ethnography Introduction The study of infancy remains mostly the province of the specialists: developmental psychologists, pediatri...

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