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Book Description
This book synthesizes an extraordinary range of theoretical ideas and empirical research on children. Corsaro shows how children contribute to both social stability and social change through a process of interpretive reproduction and breaks entirely new ground by stressing the conceptual autonomy of children.
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About the Author
William A. Corsaro is the Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington where he won the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He teaches 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) and “We’re Friends, Right”: Inside Kids’ Culture (2003). He was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Bologna, Italy, in 1983–1984 and a Senior Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in Trondheim, Norway in 2003.
The Sociology of Childhood,William A. Corsaro,Pine Science Press,0803990111,Children,Children's Studies,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,General,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Sociology Of Children,Adolescents,Social Science / Sociology / General
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