A Parenting Manual, with Words of Advice for Puritan Mothers

Reese, Debbie

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“…(1998) discuss eight different orientations to childhood and youth (see also Hwang et al. 1996, Jenks 1982, 1996; Levander and Singley 2003) They include the discourses of the innocent child (Ariès 1962; Conveny 1967; Jenks 1996; Zelitzer 1985), the evil child (Reese 2000; Stone 1977), the unconscious child of Freudian theory (Blum 1995; Kincaid 1992; Roazen 1968), the tribal child who is defined as living in a distinctive children’s world or culture that warrants the same regard as the adult world (Denzin 1971; Opie 1960), and the minority group child (Alanen 1988, Cannella and Kincheloe 2002, Mayall 2002; Oakley 1993). The latter discourse treats children as forming an identifiable and sometimes mistreated minority group in society.…”

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Social Problems Work: The Cases of Children and Youth

Miller

Vitus

2009

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews the literature on social problems work concerned with children and young people. Social problems work involves assessing particular people, events and circumstances as instances of social problems. We focus on how social problems work is organized within discourses of childhood and youth, how it is a site for holding children and young people accountable, and how normalization is an aspect of social problems work. Our review brings together analytic themes in the literature on social problems and that on children and young people. We also point to topics that might be elaborated upon in future research on social problems work concerned with children and young people.

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