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Childhood in late modernity: future perspectives
Authors: Pechtelidis, Yannis
Reviewer: Kosma, Yvon Alexia
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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.
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