Towards an Immature Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3273000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nick Lee (0009-0000-4635-7708, Keele University) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 458-482 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00127 |
| OpenAlex | W2042487937 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 58 |
| References cited | 29 |
Sociological theory displays a tendency to depict the social world in terms of completed 'beings'. The social, thus depicted, is a world of powers to 'finish' (such as the power granted to convention to provide for social order), and finished products (such as agents and ethical points-of-view). As sociologists of childhood have attempted to bring children into sociological focus in their own right, the disciplinary concern with the 'complete' has required that children be attributed the properties assumed more normally to belong to adults. The sociology of childhood has thus preserved the privilege of the complete and the mature over the incomplete and the immature. In this paper the key sociological issues of convention, agency and ethics are given a theoretical interpretation that makes them fit for understanding childhood. The ability of convention to complete social order is questioned. Agency is portrayed as the emergent property of networks of dependency rather than the possession of individuals. An alternative to the ethics of 'positions' is offered in the form of an ethics of 'motion'. Where extant sociologies of childhood have brought children into the 'finished' world of sociological theory, this paper uses childhood's ontological ambiguity to open the door onto an unfinished social world
Agency (philosophy) · Convention · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics) · Privilege (computing) · Social order · Social science · Social structure · Sociological theory · Sociology · Structure and agency · Children's Rights and Participation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
The rod, the child, and the slave
Challenging age power structures
Creating a Place to Belong
Sibling incest within violent families
Children, childhood and political participation
Pure as the angels, wise as the dead
Maternal report of young children’s eating styles. Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in three ethnically diverse Australian samples
Den sociala meningen med barns delaktighet i vårdnads-, boende- och umgängesprocesser
Reflections on the Sociology of Childhood in the UK
Introduction
Babies’ engagements with everyday things
Listening to the Social World of the Child
Osobliwość dzieciństwa
Childhood drawing
The ideal carer role
Touching heritage
Educating Sensibilities
Do You Get Some Funny Looks When You Tell People What You Do?' Muddling through Some Angsts and Ethics of (Being a Male) Researching with Children
Respite Care for Disabled Children
Facilitating and hindering factors in the realization of disabled children’s agency in institutional contexts
Realising children's rights in an ACE-aware nation
Child as method
Infancia en movimiento
Playing a part in preschool documentation
Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child's Right to Participate
Children as informal interpreters in GP consultations
What else? some more ways of thinking and doing 'Children's Geographies
Are Methodologies for Children keeping them in their Place
Wherever I lay my head is home’ – young people's experience of home in the Brazilian street environment
The challenges of ‘Children's Geographies’
Not just growing up, but going on
Changing childhoods in coastal communities
Med nøkkelen rundt halsen – Barns opplevelser av mødres og fedres arbeidsliv
The Promotion of Children's and Adolescents’ Social Participation in Italy and Scotland
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres
There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement
An Ontological Turn for Childhood Studies
The Separation That is Not a Separation But a Form of Union”
Researching children’s rights in education
Children, literacy and ethnicity reading identities in the primary school
Disrupting Identity through Visible Therapy
The child as a feminist figuration
Countering Essentialism in Behavioural Social Science
Museums and the Visually Impaired
Social bundles
The Ethical Maze
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies
The Challenge of Childhood
Getting on their level
Getting under their skins? Accessing young children's perspectives through ethnographic fieldwork
The Sociology of Childhood as Scientific Communication
Understandings of children's influence in parent-child relationships
Child Studies Multiple
Young people as partners in research
Precarity, rights and resistance in the everyday lives of children and young people
Researching, Not Playing, in the Public Sphere
Moving communities
Diagnosis, Dysmorphology, and the Family
The dominant ideology thesis
The sociology of childhood
Childhood
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
Chapter Six. From the Native's Point of View
Modernity and ambivalence
Frameworks of Power
Durable Inequality
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Child protection investigations
In Defence of the Sociological Canon
Childhood Matters
Notes on Materiality and Sociality
Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology, Discourse, Ideology
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
A thousand plateaus
Making Agency Count
Reframing and Grounding Nonhuman Agency
Michel Maffesoli's Sociology of Modernity and Postmodernity
Policy, Protectionism and the Competent Child
Learning to be Friends
Central Problems in Social Theory
The Elements of Social Theory
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
After Postmodernism - Back to Sociological Theory
The Poverty of Sociological Theory
Rethinking Childhood
| Unique citing works | 58 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,15 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |