TY - BOOK ID - 78139331 TI - Childhood PY - 2005 SN - 100306034X 1134294603 1138834629 9786610244218 1280244216 020302348X 9780203023488 0415341663 0415341671 9780415341660 9780415341677 9781134294602 9781134294558 9781134294596 9781138834620 9781000142846 1000142841 9781003060345 9781000100532 1000100537 9781000117486 1000117480 113429459X PB - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Children. KW - Children KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Social conditions. KW - Sociology of childhood UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139331 AB - In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture. ER -