Key Concepts in Childhood Studies

Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Age and Maturity Agency Best Interests Child Child-Focused Research /Research with Children Child-Friendly Childhood Child Soldiers Childhood Studies Children as Consumers Children as Researchers Children's Voices Citizenship Competence Cultural Politics of Childhood Cultural Relativism Delinquency Developmental Psychology Developmentalism Disappearance or Loss of Childhood Diversity Ethnicity Familialization Family Friendship Futurity Gender Generation Global Childhood Health Innocence Internet and New Social Media Interpretive Reproduction Minority Group Status Nature vs. Nurture Needs Neglect Parenting Participation Peer Group Play Poverty Protection Representation Resilience Responsibility Rights Schooling and Schools Sexual Abuse Sexualization Social Actor Social Construction Social World Socialization Spaces for Children and Children's Places Standpoint Street Children Structure United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Vulnerability Welfare Work and Working Children Youth