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Childhood and Society: Growing up in an Age of Uncertainty

Medical Entomology and ZoologyPublished 9 November 2001
Nick Lee
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Abstract

Introduction: childhood and human variation. Part 1 Human beings and human becomings: what do you want to be when you grow up? defining the dependent child? beings in their own right? Part 2 Ambiguities of childhood: children out of place - ambiguity and social order children in their place - home, school and media new places for children - voice, rights and decision making. Part 3 Human becomings and social research: childhood and extension - the multiplication of becoming towards an immature sociology conclusion - growing up and slowing down.

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Social Sciences