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OverviewThis new edition of the only text that thoroughly covers children and childhood from a sociological perspective includes updated coverage of peer relations, friendship, and the social problems experienced by children. The Third Edition - has been thoroughly updated to reflect the recent explosion of research in the field - includes expanded and updated material on children′s symbolic culture and material culture, and a new section, ′Children, Parents, and Consumer Culture′ - includes new section on ′Generation M: Electronic Media in the Lives of Preadolescents and Adolescents′ - highlights current policy debates and changing demographics regarding children′s quality of life around the world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William A. Corsaro, PhD , Dr William A CorsaroPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781412979436ISBN 10: 1412979439 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 05 January 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Replaced By: 9781452205441 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationWilliam A. Corsaro was Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Chair and is now Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he won the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Career Award for the Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association in 2013. He taught courses on the sociology of childhood, childhood in contemporary society, and ethnographic research methods. His primary research interests are the sociology of childhood, children’s peer cultures, the sociology of education, and ethnographic research methods. Corsaro is the author of Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years (1985), author of “We’re Friends, Right?” Inside Kids’ Culture (2003), and coauthor with Luisa Molinari of I Compagni: Understanding Children’s Transition From Preschool to Elementary School (2005). He is the coeditor with Jens Qvortrup and Michael-Sebastian Honig (2009) of The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Corsaro was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Bologna, Italy, in 1983-1984 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in Trondheim, Norway, in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2016 and was recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2019. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |