Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in the late modernity. He argues that there appears to be a greater cultural confusion about the form that childhood should take.

Discussing the place of childhood in late modernity, this volume argues that there appears to be confusion about the form that childhood should take, addressing the conflict between seeing children as individuals and surveillance and ...

Drawing on contemporary sociological and anthropological research, this text develops key links between the study of childhood and social theory, exposing its historical, political and cultural dimensions, revealing childhood's socially ...