William A. Corsaro

Broschiertes Buch

The Sociology of Childhood - International Student Edition

Beschreibung

William A. Corsaro's groundbreaking work, The Sociology of Childhood, Fifth Edition discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective - providing in-depth coverage of social theories of childhood, the peer cultures and social issues of children and youth, and children and childhood within the frameworks of culture and history.

Autor

William A. Corsaro was Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Chair and is now Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he won the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Career Award for the Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association in 2013. He taught courses on the sociology of childhood, childhood in contemporary society, and ethnographic research methods. His primary research interests are the sociology of childhood, children's peer cultures, the sociology of education, and ethnographic research methods. Corsaro is the author of Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years (1985), author of "We're Friends, Right?" Inside Kids' Culture (2003), and coauthor with Luisa Molinari of I Compagni: Understanding Children's Transition From Preschool to Elementary School (2005). He is the coeditor with Jens Qvortrup and Michael-Sebastian Honig (2009) of The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Corsaro was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Bologna, Italy, in 1983-1984 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in Trondheim, Norway, in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2016 and was recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2019.  

Produktdetails

• Sociology for a New Century Series
• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc / Sage Publications
• 5. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 725g
• ISBN-13: 9781506390734
• ISBN-10: 1506390730
• Artikelnr.: 49269547