First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social th

First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.

Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, C