Brian Gran, The Sociology of Children’s Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12192129 |
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| Authors | Georgina Dimopoulos (0000-0001-8838-0746, Swinburne Law School, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1013-1019 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Children s Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0927-5568 • E-ISSN: 1571-8182 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718182-29040002 |
| OpenAlex | W3217134876 |
| Language | EN |
In The Sociology of Children’s Rights, Brian Gran interrogates two questions that remain critical to scholarly debates concerning children’s rights: Why are children’s rights needed if children have human rights? Why should children’s rights be taken seriously? While children’s rights scholars have sought to answer these fraught questions (e.g. Freeman, 1987; Freeman, 1992; Fortin, 2004; Freeman, 2007), Gran responds from a sociological perspective. In so doing, he contributes to the growing body of scholarship that serves to bridge the “gulf” (Freeman, 2012: 29) between the disciplines of sociology
Bridge (graph theory · Human rights · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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