The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation av Madeleine Leonard

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Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, <strong>The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation </strong>provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.<br/><br/>Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the labour market, family life, education, play and leisure, the book provides an effective balance between understanding childhood as a structural phenomenon, and recognising children as meaning makers actively involved in constructing, co-constructing and reconstructing their everyday lives.<br/><br/>Through the concept of ''generagency'' Madeleine Leonard offers a model for examining and illuminating how structure and agency are activated within interdependent relationships influenced by generational positioning. This framework provi