Title Details: | |
Divergent childhoods |
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Authors: |
Pechtelidis, Yannis |
Reviewer: |
Kosma, Yvon Alexia |
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Abstract: |
In the third chapter, the subject of discussion is childhoods that deviate from the dominant childhood pattern. In particular, we will be concerned with children who subvert the basic norms about socially acceptable childhood. In this context, children living on the streets, child labourers, child soldiers, child offenders, children of different cultures, children participating in subcultures, etc. constitute categories outside the boundaries of adult control and protection and appropriate institutions, occupying a space defined by the absence of norms in most cases. Examining these daphoretic childhood patterns helps to deconstruct dominant Western childhood norms and to highlight the contingency of childhood. The social segregation of children on the basis of class, gender and ethnicity is a central theme in this chapter, as is the relationship between local societies and the processes of globalization.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Saltidou, Theodora |
Technical Editors: |
Zikos, Nikolaos |
Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
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License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4750 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Pechtelidis, Y. (2015). Divergent childhoods [Chapter]. In Pechtelidis, Y. 2015. Sociology of childhood [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4750 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
Sociology of childhood |
Number of pages |
22 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |