Children's rights
Social reality or utopian ideal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11258171 |
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| Authors | Robert J Stachowiak (University of Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-141 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01619567309537901 |
| OpenAlex | W2053104487 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The discussion of the concept of children's rights, as presented by Calkins, Lukenbill, and Mateer in this issue has been an attempt to describe some of the social prerequisites necessary for a certain segment of society, namely children, to have rights and privileges comparable to those enjoyed by the rest of society. In so doing, rights was treated as a conceptual entity and its relationship to social structure explored. These considerations were outlined, and in some ways briefly discussed, in quest of an answer to the theoretical question of what it means for children to have something called rights. In such a presentation of alternative definitions of a right, discussions about naturalistic law and social contract1 need further explanation. The authors, stating that rights are a social fact, by means of contract theory logic2 emphasized that rights are affected by the social milieu. As an examination and elaboration of these discussions, this paper shall address itself to three questions: (1) Are rights an entity unto themselves? (2) Are rights a social phenomenon and therefore affected by social milieu? and finally, (3) What are the present circumstances which bring focus on the rights of a specific population
Epistemology · Human rights · Ideal (ethics · Law and economics · Naturalism · Political science · Population · Social change · Social rights · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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