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This concise book gives a history of how the sociology of childhood has developed, from its post-war beginnings in the USA to its development in the UK and continental Europe, considering the links between sociological and rights agendas and considering research in many languages.

AbstractThis article is intended as a window on the body of research that has come to be known as the 'new sociology of childhood'. To elucidate its underlying tenets I identify three major weaknesses that scholars in the 'new' sociology find in the 'old' conceptualization – socialization – and discuss implications for doing research on children and childhood. I suggest that scholars in the United States are on a somewhat different path than their colleagues in other Western countries. Finally, I argue that the view that children are not yet members of their societies is one that is difficult to undermine.

The necessity to form a new trend in sociology, namely the sociology of childness, is considered. The author substantiates the methodological-theoretic principles of the trend and introduces a new paradigm which concerns the development of children under conditions of the transformation of Ukraine's society and is based on a new philosophy of the perception of a child starting from the prenatal period. A certain attention is paid to a modernization of the educational system and to the social responsibility and the mission of parents.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- SECTION I - Child and Childhood -- 1 - Social Class and Educational Aspirations in an Indian Metropolis -- 2 - Education and theEmerging Patternsof Political Orientations: A Sociological Analysis -- 3 - Adolescent Thieves and Differential Association -- 4 - Culture and Fertility: Son Preference and Reproductive Behaviour -- 5 - Sex Preference and Contraceptive Use in Manipur -- 6 - Disappearing Daughters and Intensification of Gender Bias: Evidence from Two Village Studies in South India -- SECTION II - Young and Youth -- 7 - The Attitudes to English andUse of It by Students of ThreeDifferent Mother Tongues:Hindi, Kannada and Tamil -- 8 - Perception of the FemaleRole by Indian College Students -- 9 - Social Class andOccupational Aspirationsof College Students -- 10 - Youth Aspirations vis-a-vis National Development: Participate or Emigrate? -- 11 - The Use Psychotropic Drugs among College Youth in India: An Appraisal -- 12 - Problems of the Youth of North-East India:A Sociological Inquiry -- 13 - Youth in Techno Global World: Predicaments and Choices -- Index -- About the Editor andContributors -- Appendix of Sources.