Title Details: | |
Childhood in late modernity: future perspectives |
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Authors: |
Pechtelidis, Yannis |
Reviewer: |
Kosma, Yvon Alexia |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
In the last chapter, we critically examine the sociological discourses of the risk society in late modernity and the place of children in it. According to Ulrich Beck (1992), late modernity is perceived as a dangerous place or else as a place in which we are constantly confronted with danger. Previous certainties are collapsing and the focus of people and states is on preventing or dealing with the risks that are systematically produced as a constitutive part of modernity. Nowadays, children are more vulnerable to risk to a significant degree because of the precarious social and economic environment. Children from underprivileged classes usually occupy the most precarious positions, although almost all children now experience insecurity, but to varying degrees.
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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/11419/4752 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Pechtelidis, Y. (2015). Childhood in late modernity: future perspectives [Chapter]. In Pechtelidis, Y. 2015. Sociology of childhood [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4752 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
Sociology of childhood |
Number of pages |
24 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |