Product Description

Traditionally, children and adults have been treated as different kinds of person - adults as complete, stable and self-controlling; children as incomplete, changeable and in need of control. But today, adulthood is no longer lived as a state of personal completion. Careers, intimate relationships, even identities, are increasingly provisional. Does this mean that there is now no significant difference between adults and children? Has the division between mature and immature collapsed? This book examines these issues through assessments of current theories of childhood and through a survey of children's varied positions in a globalizing and highly mediated social world. It also develops a new set of conceptual tools for studying 'growing up'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #235328 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

Review
"In this reader-friendly book, Nick Lee gives a careful guide to new research about childhood" - Priscilla Alderson (Infant and Child Development )

"Nick Lee has written an accessible book, which sets out key features of the new sociology of childhood and at the same time, advances a novel and critical theoretical line. I would recommend this text to all scholars with an interest in children and childhood". - Michael Wyness (Children & Society )

About the Author
Nick Lee is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Keele. His doctorate in psychology was based on studies of the UK child protection system, as was his masters degree in social research. He has published numerous articles on childhood and on social theory. (20030101)