Socialising Children (Studies in Childhood and Youth)

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. 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. Allison James. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 186-195) And Index. "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."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-viii Personal Lives....Pages 1-22 Key Concepts, New Understandings?....Pages 23-48 Family Lives....Pages 49-73 Interacting Lives....Pages 74-100 Embodied, Emotional Lives....Pages 101-124 Institutional Lives....Pages 125-149 Biographical Lives....Pages 150-172 Afterword: Towards a Child-Centred Perspective on Socialisation....Pages 173-182 Back Matter....Pages 183-204 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.