Calvary University

 Faculty of Sociology

Children and Society

Edition 1

Malcolm Hill, Kay Tisdall
0582-29492-4
Paperback
368 pages
1997

Brief Description

Provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, research and debates relating to children and the experience of childhood in late twentieth century Britain.

Features

Adopts a multi-disciplinary approach.
Provides a sound introduction to, and critical analysis of the key issues affecting children, with suggestions for further reading.
Considers children both as a social group and as differentiated by such characteristics as age, gender, ethnicity, class and disability.
Traces the increasing prominence of children's rights in the 1990s. Presents vivid first hand accounts of children's experience in modern Britain.

Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgements.

1. Changes and diversity in children's lives.
2. Children's rights.
3. Children's needs.
4. Communicating with children.
5. Children's family and network relationships
6. Children and school.
7. Children and health
8. Children and poverty.
9. Children and crime.
10. Child abuse and child protection.
11. Transitions to childhood.
12. Children, families and society - an overview.

References.
Appendix 1.
Index

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