This International Volume of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth shows the breadth of current empirical research that focuses on children and youth around the world. Coming from a range of methodological and theoretical orientations, this volume showcases the lives of children and the policies that shape children's lives on five continents. Across these research articles, it becomes clear that we cannot continue to assume a certain meaning of childhood, because this concept is bound by both cultural and structural factors. Cultural expectations influence how societies view children and how children view themselves. A handful of these studies show how immigrant children and youth provide particularly interesting insight as they navigate more than one cultural context. Structural factors also become salient, as children come from unequal backgrounds, different levels of economic development, and face varying political concerns. While these papers come from different doorsteps of the world, cultural and structural threads of continuity connect them as meaningful for children. This volume illustrates how international childhood researchers can use current concepts and theories into unlikely contexts exposing their limitations and helping to inform more versatile and robust lines of thinking for children and youth studies.
Author(s): Loretta Bass
Edition: International edition
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 284
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INTRODUCTION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH......Page 5
REFERENCES......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
CHILDREN IN THEIR HOMES......Page 14
CHILDREN EARNING MONEY......Page 17
ON THEIR OWN......Page 18
EMPLOYMENT......Page 20
CONCLUSION......Page 22
REFERENCES......Page 24
INTRODUCTION......Page 26
THE CITY OF MARILIA AND THE PARQUE DAS NAES FAVELA......Page 29
CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE PARQUE DAS NAES FAVELA......Page 30
CHILDREN, POVERTY, AND THE STEREOTYPE OF MARGINALITY......Page 31
TOYS AND GAMES ON THE STREETS OF THE FAVELA......Page 34
CONCLUSION......Page 40
REFERENCES......Page 42
INTRODUCTION......Page 45
THEORETICAL APPROACH......Page 46
Cultural Norms......Page 47
The Educational System......Page 48
The Social Welfare Systems......Page 50
EDUCATION......Page 51
Educational Achievement......Page 52
Educational Attainment......Page 53
Gender Differences in Educational Attainment......Page 56
Labor Force Participation......Page 57
Unemployment Rate......Page 60
Marriage......Page 62
Childbearing......Page 64
LEAVING PARENTAL HOME......Page 66
INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG TRANSITION MARKERS......Page 68
FAMILY BACKGROUND AND TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD......Page 69
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 71
REFERENCES......Page 73
INTRODUCTION......Page 76
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND......Page 77
THE CANADIAN CONTEXT OF VISIBLE MINORITIES......Page 78
THE SECOND GENERATION: FROM MOBILITY TO IDENTITY......Page 80
THE STUDY DESIGN......Page 82
Identity and Heritage......Page 84
INTERACTION AT HOME......Page 86
SOCIAL CHOICES: FRIENDSHIP, DATING AND MARRIAGE SELECTION......Page 88
DISCUSSION......Page 90
CONCLUSION......Page 94
REFERENCES......Page 98
INTRODUCTION......Page 101
FROM CHILDHOOD SOCIOLOGY TO THE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ORDERING......Page 102
THE SELF AS SOCIAL ADDRESS AND SOCIAL PROTAGONIST......Page 105
SELF IDEALS OF THE PRESENT - INDIVIDUALISM, DISPLAY, AESTHETICALIZATION......Page 108
SELF AND SOCIALIZATION - CHILDRENS LITERATURE AS GUIDE AND MIRROR......Page 109
METHOD: SELECTION OF BOOKS AND CONTENT ANALYSIS......Page 110
FROM PERSONAL OBLIGATION TO AN ABSTRACT HORIZON OF VALUES - TWO CHILDRENS DETECTIVE STORIES......Page 111
FROM RASCAL WITH A HEART TO UNSCRUPULOUS SELF-PROJECTOR - TWO SCHOOLBOY STORIES......Page 114
FROM CIVILIZATION TO AUTHENTICITY - THE GIRLS' TALK......Page 115
CONCLUSION - FROM FAMILIAR OBLIGATION TO COUPLING OF SELF-REFERENTIAL SUBJECTS......Page 117
REFERENCES......Page 120
INTRODUCTION......Page 125
CHILDRENS RIGHTS: INWARD PERSPECTIVES5......Page 127
The Research Setting......Page 130
Research Design and Instruments......Page 131
The Sample......Page 133
CHILDRENS VIEWS OF THEIR OWN RIGHTS: A DATA BASE......Page 135
Childrens Answer: The Data Set......Page 136
Molise vs. Catalonia......Page 138
Gender Differences......Page 140
Residential Differences......Page 141
Concluding Remarks......Page 142
INTRODUCING PARENTS' SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND......Page 144
CONCLUDING REMARKS: IS CHILDRENS REASONING ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS REALLY A "FLAT WORLD?"......Page 147
REFERENCES......Page 149
CHILDRENS DATA SET (#)......Page 151
INTRODUCTION......Page 153
HARTS LADDER OF PARTICIPATION......Page 154
THE ELEVEN PLUS SYSTEM IN NORTHERN IRELAND......Page 156
APPLYING HARTS MODEL OF EFFECTIVE RESEARCH......Page 158
ADULTS' INVOLVEMENT IN RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN......Page 162
CONCLUSION......Page 164
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 165
REFERENCES......Page 166
INTRODUCTION......Page 168
METHODS......Page 170
GENERATIONAL POWER PROCESSES WITHIN THE HOME......Page 171
Legitimate Authority......Page 173
Resource Power......Page 175
Anticipated Reactions......Page 177
SIBLING POWER......Page 178
ROUTINISED AND RECIPROCAL EXPECTATIONS......Page 180
CONCLUSION......Page 183
REFERENCES......Page 185
INTRODUCTION......Page 188
RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS: CORRELATES OF HEALTH-COMPROMISING BEHAVIOR......Page 189
CULTURE OF RISK?......Page 192
DATA AND METHODS......Page 193
Procedure......Page 194
Measurement......Page 195
Analysis......Page 197
RESULTS......Page 201
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 204
REFERENCES......Page 207
INTRODUCTION......Page 212
STUDIES IN CONSTRUCTING INVOLVEMENT......Page 214
DATA COLLECTION......Page 217
Analysis of Mentoring Activities......Page 218
ENGAGING AND EXPANDING INVOLVEMENT......Page 221
CONCLUSIONS......Page 225
REFERENCES......Page 227
INTRODUCTION......Page 229
WAR AND YOUNG CHILDRENS MORTALITY......Page 230
GENERAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT......Page 231
MILITARY PARTICIPATION......Page 232
WOMENS LITERACY......Page 233
INFRASTRUCTURE......Page 234
RELIGIOUS COMPOSITION......Page 235
DATA AND METHODS......Page 236
Previous Years at War 1946-1989 (War '46-'89)......Page 237
Childrens Mortality Rates......Page 239
Religious Composition......Page 240
RESULTS......Page 241
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION......Page 246
REFERENCES......Page 248
EIGHTY-EIGHT COUNTRIES INCLUDED IN THE STUDY......Page 252
INTRODUCTION......Page 254
Data......Page 256
Single-decrement Life Tables......Page 257
Periods of Observation......Page 258
Methodological Challenges......Page 259
Probability of Experiencing Cohabitation......Page 260
Expected Duration in Cohabitation......Page 262
Change in the Probability of Experiencing Cohabitation......Page 264
Change in Expected Duration in Cohabitation......Page 266
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 268
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 272
REFERENCES......Page 273
APPENDIX A......Page 275
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