The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

This book outlines and illustrates sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and to understanding contemporary children and childhood. By focusing specifically on the ongoing thorny relationship between structure and agency, the book highlights the messy and interrelated ways in whic [...]
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This book outlines and illustrates sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and to understanding contemporary children and childhood. By focusing specifically on the ongoing thorny relationship between structure and agency, the book highlights the messy and interrelated ways in which children's everyday micro lives are influenced by wider macro structures. Through the concept of generagency and its offshoots, inter-generagency and intra-generagency, the book offers a model for examining and illuminating how structure and agency are activated within interdependent relationships influenced by generational positioning. This framework provides a conceptual tool for thinking about the continuities, challenges and changes that impact on how childhood is lived and experienced.