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Organizations, Nongovernmental
Anna Holzscheiter
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Nongovernmental Organizations Introduction Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are now considered to be the linchpin of grassroots, local, nat...
Orphans
Cheryl Nixon
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Orphans Introduction Bereft of parents, the orphan is a child who requires protection, care, and guidance. The orphan thus reveals his or her ...
Parenting
Caroline J. Gatrell
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Parenting Introduction Research on parenting, and especially mothering, has been a focus of sociologies and psychologies of parenting and family...
Peer Culture
William A. Corsaro
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Peer Culture Introduction Most of the early work on peer culture focuses on adolescents, with a primary concern on outcomes (positive and negat...
Play
Anna Beresin
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Play Introduction Play is the language of childhood, a complex, social, and multimodal process. Definitions abound but are often found lacking....
Politics, Children and
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...
Poverty, Rights, and Well-being, Child
Valerie Polakow, Syprose Owiti
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Child Poverty, Rights, and Well-Being Introduction Child poverty constitutes a global crisis with far-reaching implications for children’s psy...
Prostitution and Pornography, Child
Heather Montgomery
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Child Prostitution and Pornography Introduction The subjects of child prostitution and pornography have been approached from a number of perspe...
Queer Theory and Childhood
Diederik Janssen
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Queer Theory and Childhood Introduction Emergent interfacing between queer studies and childhood studies has amounted to a playing field simult...
Race and Ethnicity
Anoop Nayak
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Race and Ethnicity Introduction It is widely accepted that race is a fictitious category used to divide the human population in ways that may b...
Refugee and Displaced Children
Charles Watters
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Refugee and Displaced Children Introduction There is a large and disparate range of reading available on the subject of refugee and displaced c...
Rights, Children's
Heather Montgomery
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children’s Rights Introduction Children’s rights are an integral part of human rights; children have rights because they are human. This has be...
Russia
Andy Byford
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Russia Introduction The multidisciplinary study of “childhood” as a distinct social, anthropological, and historical phenomenon is still in the...
Sexuality
Mary Jane Kehily
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Sexuality Introduction Childhood and sexuality is a contested subject area that has been researched from different perspectives across a range ...
Siblings
Ashley Maynard
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Siblings Introduction Most children in the world grow up with one or more siblings. Interactions with siblings serve important functions in deve...
Social Movements, Children's
Manfred Liebel
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children’s Social Movements Introduction Social movements can be understood as more or less organized associations of persons who consider them...
Social Policy, Children and
Tess Ridge
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Children and Social Policy Introduction Social policies play a key role in the lives of children and their families, and children rely very hea...
Socialization and Child Rearing
Leon Kuczynski
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Socialization and Child Rearing Introduction Socialization is the process by which children are prepared to become successful members of societ...
Sociology of Childhood
Michael Wyness
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Sociology of Childhood Introduction The sociology of childhood developed quite rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s as a critical discipline within t...
South African Birth to Twenty Project
Linda M. Richter, Julia de Kadt, Carren Ginsburg, Tawanda Makusha, Shane A Norris
Subject: Childhood Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
South African Birth to Twenty Project Introduction The late 1980s in South Africa saw the Apartheid state falling apart and very rapid, unplan...
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