Description
This module provides a comprehensive introduction to key trends and debates in the sociological study of childhood. It offers students an opportunity to explore cutting edge research on the diversity of children’s lives across time and place. Drawing on the work of leading scholars in the field, the module will prompt consideration of the contradictions and continuities in ways children are positioned in different contexts. This will enable exploration of adult-child power relations, unequal childhoods, and the intersections of local and global childhoods, children’s rights, and children’s contributions to their social, political and economic worlds. Students will examine a variety of representations of childhood (e.g. in film, advertisements, policy) and their social and political implications. The module will encourage reflection on the significance of sociological understandings of childhood for research, professional practice, and policy.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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