A Historical Sociology of Childhood
Developmental Thinking, Categorization and Graphic Visualization
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- Author: André Turmel, Université Laval, Québec
- Date Published: July 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521705639
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What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology had moved to the forefront, transforming our thinking and understanding. André Turmel investigates these transformations both from the perspective of the scientific observation of children (public hygiene, paediatrics, psychology and education) and from a public policy standpoint (child welfare, health policy, education and compulsory schooling). Using detailed historical accounts from Britain, the USA and France, Turmel studies how historical sequential development and statistical reasoning have led to a concept of what constitutes a 'normal' child and resulted in a form of standardization by which we monitor children. He shows how western society has become a child-centred culture and asks whether we continue to base parenting and teaching on a view of children that is no longer appropriate.
Read more- An original contribution to the sociology of childhood which takes a historical approach rather than the usual focus on socialisation
- Shows how a cultural historical process has moulded our contemporary understanding of children
- Engages with Darwin, Piaget and other historical figures of developmental thinking
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'André Turmel's A Historical Sociology of Childhood is a magisterial work, international in scope, and theoretically sophisticated. Recommend it to your students, read it to refresh yourself on the strengths of postmodernism.' www.h-net.org
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- Date Published: July 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521705639
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- contains: 7 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Children in the collective
2. Graphs, charts and tabulations: the textual inscription of children
3. Social technologies: regulation and resistance
4. The normal child: translation and circulation
5. Developmental thinking as a cognitive form
Conclusion.
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