FSS:SOC455 Sociology of childhood - Course Information

SOC455 Sociology of childhood

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Igor Nosál, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Ing. Radim Marada, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová

Timetable

Wed 10:00–11:40 U34

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/24, only registered: 0/24

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course focuses on the contemporary sociological theory and social research of childhood. It provide to students deep understanding of selected themes from the point of view of social constructivism. Students will critically learn also perspectives of other important paradigms of the theory of childhood. The first part of the course (9 weeks) is based on thematically structured reading and classroom discussions of the texts. Particular lectures deal with various methodological approaches in the research of childhood. During the second part (3-4 weeks) the students should at the workshop discuss their project of the final paper (it should be small empirical analysis or theoretical essay written on the given themes and based on the listed literature). The conditions to get the credits: The seminar paper (20 points), the final paper (60 points), final examination in the form of the classroom essay based on the mandatory literature (20 points). In order to get a credit it is needed to get at least 60 from possible 100 points.

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction: The idea of childhood and „The Playing-Child Construction” 2. The conceptual limitations on a sociological approach to childhood 3. The Historical Development of Modern Childhood 4. Children and Childhood in Late Modernity 5. Children, Family and the State 6. Schooling Childhood 7. Childrens Rights and Politics 8. The Childrens Culture and Play 9. Researching childhood 10. Worshop 1 11. Worshop 2 12. Worshop 3

Literature

• Research with children : perspectives and practices. Edited by Pia Monrad Christensen - Allison James. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2008, xvi, 295. ISBN 9780415416849. info
• WYNESS, Michael G. Childhood and society : an introduction to the sociology of childhood. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, xi, 268. ISBN 0333946499. info
• The politics of childhood : international perspectives, contemporary developments. Edited by Jim Goddard. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xvii, 280. ISBN 1403935513. info
• JAMES, Allison and Adrian L. JAMES. Constructing childhood : theory, policy and social practice. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004, x, 244. ISBN 0333948912. info
• JAMES, Allison, Chris JENKS and Alan PROUT. Theorizing childhood. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998, 247 s. ISBN 0-7456-1565-1. info
• The history of childhood. Edited by Lloyd de. Mause. 1st ed. Northvale: Jason Aronson Inc., 1995, 450 s. ISBN 1-56821-551-7. info
• ARIÈS, Philippe. Centuries of childhood : a social history of family life. Translated by Robert Baldick. New York: Vintage Books, 1962, 447 stran. ISBN 9780394702865. info

Assessment methods

The first part of the course (9 weeks) is based on thematically structured reading and classroom discussions of the texts. Particular lectures deal with various methodological approaches in the research of childhood. During the second part (3-4 weeks) the students should at the workshop discuss their project of the final paper (it should be small empirical analysis or theoretical essay written on the given themes and based on the listed literature). The conditions to get the credits: The seminar paper (20 points), the final paper (60 points), final examination in the form of the classroom essay based on the mandatory literature (20 points). In order to get a credit it is needed to get at least 60 from possible 100 points.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

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