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Divergent childhoods
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.
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