Written by two reputed authors in the field, this accessible text offers stimulating and refreshing reading for all students of the sociology and anthropology of health.

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency.

In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This book brings together the major developments in the field.

This text brings together sociological, anthropological and social policy perspectives on the life course with a view to developing the conceptual rigour of the term as well as to exploring the rich range of debates and issues it ...

A great place to start further studies." - Kathryn Peckham, Chichester University This book has already proved itself as a market leader in Childhood Studies. All of the strengths of the First Edition have been retained.

Between the Stalls is an expose of the horse world, a peek into women's lives as they enter their "senior years" as they have an opportunity to explore their former love of horses.

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.

Analyzes critically how fundamental concepts of dependency and independence are perpetuated by the structured nature of the individual's life course in western cultures - childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

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It explores the process of socialisation through parents' narratives about their children's experiences of illness at home and at school, raising questions about ideas of difference and disability as they relate to social identity and ...