Publication details
Příroda versus kultura ve studii o budoucnosti dětství Alana Prouta
| Title in English | Nature Versus Culture in the Study of the Future of Childhood by Alan Prout |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | childhood - childhood studies - culture - nature - sociology of childhood |
| Description | In his latest book, Alan Prout discusses new possibilities, both theoretical and empirical, for contemporary social studies of childhood. He describes the changing character of contemporary childhood and the shifting boundary between adulthood and childhood. Prout also describes the emergence of childhood studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and critically examines the new social studies of childhood. While doing this, he reconsiders some of their key assumptions. Prout argues that the future of childhood studies requires a new approach. The main task for this new approach is to break the nature/culture dichotomy as well as intellectual boundaries that separate nature and culture as contradictory in childhood studies. Prout claims that it is now time to find new intellectual resources and to build an interdisciplinary approach that will conceive of childhood as a heterogeneous and complex phenomenon. He emphasizes the role of material artifacts and technologies in the construction of contemporary childhood. |
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