Childhood Bodies: Construction, Agency and Hybridity

Abstract

Childhood and the body are topics which have both seen an enormous growth of sociological interest in recent years. Both have been reconstituted as legitimate topics of sociological enquiry, that is as properly belonging to the 'social' sphere and in need liberation from their previous confinement to the 'natural'. In both cases a substantial and still growing literature has been produced to this end. In general, however, these developments have occurred on separate tracks, with remarkably little contact between the two fields and only occasional cross-reference. This volume takes a step towards remedying this mutual neglect by bringing together a series of papers and research reports by sociologists and anthropologists who have investigated their intersection.KeywordsSocial LifeSocial ConstructionismBodily ChangeTechnological ArtefactBiological ReductionismThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.