Persisting Inequalities

Childhood between global influences and local traditions

Bibliographic Data

ID3103152
AuthorsDoris Bühler-Niederberger, Doris Bühler‐niederberger (0000-0001-6944-947X, Universität Wuppertal,, corresponding author), R Van Krieken (0000-0001-5165-6913, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume15
Issue2
Pages147-155
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0907568207088419
OpenAlexW1970103769
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited18

This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for both the perception of childhood and for childrens real lives. They also include the ways in which those processes intertwined with social inequalities - of gender, generation and socioeconomic status - among children and between children and other age groups. The article goes on to provide an outline of the ways in which more general theoretical concerns in the sociology of childhood globally are related to local situations, to a variety of practical settings, to the conceptual concerns in different sociological fields and other social science disciplines in South Africa, Ethiopia, Taiwan, Germany, Sweden, and Italy

Epistemology · Inequality · Modernity · Perception · Population · Social inequality · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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