Alan Prout
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 138364 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Prout |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Prout |
| ASSINATURA | PROUT A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Stirling |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 252 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems
35 4 (2023) ?, 1 : .-, (emergent paradigm)
Child Studies Multiple
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
In Defence of Interdisciplinary Childhood Studies
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
Space for Play
This article discusses how children, toys, and play are accommodated in the spaces of the contemporary home in order to highlight the often overlooked connections between home as an imaginative space and housing as a physical location in which people reside. We do this by exploring how families in private, new-build homes in contemporary Scotland reconfigure domestic space through the creation of a new kind of internal domestic space—the “toy roo…
User Involvement in Public Services
Processes of involvement and representation are particularly important in UK public services if users’ interests are adequately to be taken into account. Yet there are several different, sometimes competing ways for users’ views to be represented, and their interaction is not well understood. This article reports on research exploring these issues in relation to three public services – housing, social care and leisure services. We asked, how do p…
Taking a Step Away from Modernity
This article explores the conditions under which the sociology of childhood was created, suggests some of the problems encountered in this effort and points to some possible remedies. It is argued that the construction of a sociology of childhood entailed a double task. First, space had to be created for childhood within sociological discourse. Second, the increasing complexity and ambiguity of childhood as a contemporary, destabilized phenomenon…
Children, young people and social inclusion
Children, young people and social inclusion
Children, Young People and Social Inclusion
This book presents a novel interpretation of the nature, causes and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labour market. Employing a sophisticated new theoretical framework, and drawing on original fieldwork, the book develops a subtle account of the phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to existing approaches.
Children, young people and social inclusion
Barndommens kroppe
Alan Prout: Childhood bodies: construction, agency and hybridity This paper explores the relationship between the sociology of childhood and the sociology of the body. Noting that the two fields are marked by mutual neglect, it reviews some of the theoretical issues that underlie the enterprise of bringing them together. Three key themes emerge from this discussion. The first concerns social constructionism. Both fields draw on this theoretical a…
Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on the Study of Children
The Future of Childhood
In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include: the changing social and cultural character of …
Moving the participation agenda forward
This article sets the scene for the other papers in this Special Issue on children's and young people's participation, by outlining the nature of the ESRC Seminar Series from which all are derived and by developing the main themes discussed at the seminars. The focus of this Issue is participation by children and young people as this relates to differing notions of social exclusion and inclusion. This article critically examines participation in …
Hearing the Voices of Children
From the nineteenth century onwards child welfare policies in England have been based on the perception of children either as vulnerable, and thus in need of protection (the child as victim) or as impulsive/ unsocialised, and thus in need of guidance and control (the child as threat) (Hendrick, 1994). Both law and policy relating to children and their families reveal an underlying ambivalence when deciding what should be done for and about childr…
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems, Alan Prout and Allison James constructions and reconstructions of British childhood - an interpretive survey, 1800 to the present, Harry Hendrick psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs, Martin Woodhead a voice for children in statistical and social accounting - a plea for children's right to be heard, Jens Qvortrup it's a small world - Disneylan…
Researching children as social actors
Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, the greater potential for conflicts of interest, often hitherto unrecognized, between children and other actors. It is suggested to work from a perspective of `ethical symmetry' in research relationships with children while taking into account the social…
Representing children
The Body, Childhood and Society
Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in fi
Children's participation
Children's participation in public life in contemporary Britain is examined in relation to the tension between control and self-realisation found in late modernity. It is argued that, despite the recognition of children as persons in their own right, public policy and practice is marked by an intensification of control, regulation and surveillance around children. This tension is considered in relation to the constitution of children in the publi…
Children's participation
Children's participation
Children's participation in public life in contemporary Britain is examined in relation to the tension between control and self‐realisation found in late modernity. It is argued that, despite the recognition of children as persons in their own right, public policy and practice is marked by an intensification of control, regulation and surveillance around children. This tension is considered in relation to the constitution of children in the publi…
Medicines and the maintenance of ordinariness in the household management of childhood asthma
This paper applies and extends the 'adaption' perspective on chronic illness by arguing that, in the case of moderate child-hood asthma, an important aspect of the process may be found in the ways in which children and parents construct a sense of their ordinariness. It is suggested that medicines may play a role in this process. Reporting an intensive and detailed qualitative study of the management strategies of nine English families, it is sho…
Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, the greater potential for conflicts of interest, often hitherto unrecognized, between children and other actors. It is suggested to work from a perspective of `ethical symmetry' in research relationships with children while taking into account the social…
Actor-network theory, technology and medical sociology
Actor-network theory is a form of relational materialism that codifies a body of ideas developed in the sociology and history of technology. At its centre is a non-dualistic account of the relation between 'society' and 'technology'. In this view society is produced through the mutually constituting interaction of a wide range of human and non-human entities (including machines and technologies). This paper outlines some of the key ideas of actor…
Medicines and the maintenance of ordinariness in the household management of childhood asthma
This paper applies and extends the 'adaption' perspective on chronic illness by arguing that, in the case of moderate child-hood asthma, an important aspect of the process may be found in the ways in which children and parents construct a sense of their ordinariness. It is suggested that medicines may play a role in this process. Reporting an intensive and detailed qualitative study of the management strategies of nine English families, it is sho…
Taking a Step Away from Modernity
This article explores the conditions under which the sociology of childhood was created, suggests some of the problems encountered in this effort and points to some possible remedies. It is argued that the construction of a sociology of childhood entailed a double task. First, space had to be created for childhood within sociological discourse. Second, the increasing complexity and ambiguity of childhood as a contemporary, destabilized phenomenon…
Wet children' and 'little actresses
The material presented here is drawn from a wider ethnographic study of children's sickness absence in a primary school. The particular aspect deals with concerns how children's claims on sickness are handled by teachers and other school staff. Teachers' typifications of the childrearing practices of the parents, especially the description of the children as ‘wet’, and the project that flows from it, are suggested as the framework in which teache…
Space for Play
This article discusses how children, toys, and play are accommodated in the spaces of the contemporary home in order to highlight the often overlooked connections between home as an imaginative space and housing as a physical location in which people reside. We do this by exploring how families in private, new-build homes in contemporary Scotland reconfigure domestic space through the creation of a new kind of internal domestic space—the “toy roo…
Sickness as a dominant symbol in life course transitions
The paper examines how sickness as a cultural performance might be analysed as a dominant symbol within life course transitions. The concept of dominant symbol is taken from Victor Turner's framework for Symbolic Processual Analysis in ritual and pilgrimage and is used to interrogate data collected in an ethnographic study of sickness absence in an English primary school. It is suggested that sickness played a central part in the construction of …
Off School Sick
Interview material, collected as part of a wider ethnographic study of sickness absence in an English primary school, is used to examine how mothers accounted for their decisions to keep children 'off school sick'. Mothers' accounts suggested a process by which they tested their children's claims on sickness against suspicions of feigning illness. The paper describes, from the mothers' point of view, the process of negotiating sickness with child…
User Involvement in Public Services
Processes of involvement and representation are particularly important in UK public services if users’ interests are adequately to be taken into account. Yet there are several different, sometimes competing ways for users’ views to be represented, and their interaction is not well understood. This article reports on research exploring these issues in relation to three public services – housing, social care and leisure services. We asked, how do p…
What Will i do
Child Studies Multiple
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, 'un-closure' , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a…
The Natural and the Personal
The paper explores, in detailed case‐studies in four schools, the ways in which birth is represented in the classroom. It follows the reactions of pupils and teachers to the showing of a number of widely used films on birth in school. An analysis of the films, and classroom response to them, suggests that they are often dominated by excessively medical perspectives, take up a child centre view that tends to leave out parents, particularly mothers…
What Will i do
The Natural and the Personal
The paper explores, in detailed case‐studies in four schools, the ways in which birth is represented in the classroom. It follows the reactions of pupils and teachers to the showing of a number of widely used films on birth in school. An analysis of the films, and classroom response to them, suggests that they are often dominated by excessively medical perspectives, take up a child centre view that tends to leave out parents, particularly mothers…
Wet children' and 'little actresses
The material presented here is drawn from a wider ethnographic study of children's sickness absence in a primary school. The particular aspect deals with concerns how children's claims on sickness are handled by teachers and other school staff. Teachers' typifications of the childrearing practices of the parents, especially the description of the children as ‘wet’, and the project that flows from it, are suggested as the framework in which teache…
Off School Sick
Interview material, collected as part of a wider ethnographic study of sickness absence in an English primary school, is used to examine how mothers accounted for their decisions to keep children 'off school sick'. Mothers' accounts suggested a process by which they tested their children's claims on sickness against suspicions of feigning illness. The paper describes, from the mothers' point of view, the process of negotiating sickness with child…
Sickness as a dominant symbol in life course transitions
The paper examines how sickness as a cultural performance might be analysed as a dominant symbol within life course transitions. The concept of dominant symbol is taken from Victor Turner's framework for Symbolic Processual Analysis in ritual and pilgrimage and is used to interrogate data collected in an ethnographic study of sickness absence in an English primary school. It is suggested that sickness played a central part in the construction of …
The Child's World of Illness
Actor-network theory, technology and medical sociology
Actor-network theory is a form of relational materialism that codifies a body of ideas developed in the sociology and history of technology. At its centre is a non-dualistic account of the relation between 'society' and 'technology'. In this view society is produced through the mutually constituting interaction of a wide range of human and non-human entities (including machines and technologies). This paper outlines some of the key ideas of actor…
Children 5-16 research programme
Children 5–16 research programme
Medicines and the maintenance of ordinariness in the household management of childhood asthma
This paper applies and extends the 'adaption' perspective on chronic illness by arguing that, in the case of moderate child-hood asthma, an important aspect of the process may be found in the ways in which children and parents construct a sense of their ordinariness. It is suggested that medicines may play a role in this process. Reporting an intensive and detailed qualitative study of the management strategies of nine English families, it is sho…
The Body, Childhood and Society
Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in fi
Children's participation
Children's participation in public life in contemporary Britain is examined in relation to the tension between control and self-realisation found in late modernity. It is argued that, despite the recognition of children as persons in their own right, public policy and practice is marked by an intensification of control, regulation and surveillance around children. This tension is considered in relation to the constitution of children in the publi…
Children's participation
Children's participation
Children's participation in public life in contemporary Britain is examined in relation to the tension between control and self‐realisation found in late modernity. It is argued that, despite the recognition of children as persons in their own right, public policy and practice is marked by an intensification of control, regulation and surveillance around children. This tension is considered in relation to the constitution of children in the publi…
Representing children
Researching children as social actors
Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, the greater potential for conflicts of interest, often hitherto unrecognized, between children and other actors. It is suggested to work from a perspective of `ethical symmetry' in research relationships with children while taking into account the social…
Hearing the Voices of Children
From the nineteenth century onwards child welfare policies in England have been based on the perception of children either as vulnerable, and thus in need of protection (the child as victim) or as impulsive/ unsocialised, and thus in need of guidance and control (the child as threat) (Hendrick, 1994). Both law and policy relating to children and their families reveal an underlying ambivalence when deciding what should be done for and about childr…
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems, Alan Prout and Allison James constructions and reconstructions of British childhood - an interpretive survey, 1800 to the present, Harry Hendrick psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs, Martin Woodhead a voice for children in statistical and social accounting - a plea for children's right to be heard, Jens Qvortrup it's a small world - Disneylan…
The Future of Childhood
In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of childhood requires a broad set of intellectual resources and an interdisciplinary approach. Chapters include: the changing social and cultural character of …
Moving the participation agenda forward
This article sets the scene for the other papers in this Special Issue on children's and young people's participation, by outlining the nature of the ESRC Seminar Series from which all are derived and by developing the main themes discussed at the seminars. The focus of this Issue is participation by children and young people as this relates to differing notions of social exclusion and inclusion. This article critically examines participation in …
Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on the Study of Children
Children, young people and social inclusion
Children, young people and social inclusion
Children, Young People and Social Inclusion
This book presents a novel interpretation of the nature, causes and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labour market. Employing a sophisticated new theoretical framework, and drawing on original fieldwork, the book develops a subtle account of the phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to existing approaches.
Sociology (28 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (19 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (15 obras) · Social science (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (7 obras) · Children (6 obras)