Comparative Social Research

Comparative Social Research - en årbok publisert på Elsevier Science
På tross av den voksende bevisstheten om globalisering, foregår hoveddelen av empirisk samfunnsvitenskapelig arbeid innenfor rammene av hva Stein Rokkan betegnet "nasjonal empirisme". Årboken Comparative Social Research søker å utvide de internasjonale orienteringene i samfunnsvitenskapene. Hver årgang er konsentrert om et bestemt emne, hovedsakelig av substansiell, men også av metodologisk art. Som en hovedregel presenterer og sammenligninger artiklene to eller flere sosiale forhold eller enheter, det være seg nasjoner, regioner, organisasjoner eller kollektiver aktører til ulike tider. Temaene i de siste årgangene har vært komparative studier av universitetet som institusjoner for produksjon og diffusjon av kunnskap; familiepolitikk; regionale kulturer; og institusjonelle aspekter ved arbeid og lønnsdannelse.

Serieredaktør Fredrik Engelstad, Institutt for samfunnsforskning

Medredaktører
Grete Brochmann, Institutt for samfunnsforskning
Lars Mjøset, Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo
Kristian Berg Harpviken, PRIO
Mari Teigen, Institutt for samfunnsforskning
Bernard Enjolras, Institutt for samfunnsforskning

Kommende utgivelser Tema for 2009-utgaven er "Comparative studies of Civil Society". Tema for 2010-utgaven er "Comparative Perspectives on State Failure and Regional Insecurity". Les Call for papers her.

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25 (2008) Childhood: Changing Contexts

Edited by
Arnlaug Leira, Department of Sociology and Human geography, University of Oslo, Norway
Ciara Saraceno, Department of Social Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, and Social Science Research Center Verlin, Germany

Demographic and societal changes are strongly affecting the contexts of childhood and the experience of being children. At the same time, across social groups and across societies, diversities and inequalities in childhood are taking new forms.

In the developed world, in particular, children their number, their welfare, their education, the division of power and responsibilities over them among the different social actors have entered the public agenda, at the national and supranational level. Public concern over issues such as fertility rates, mothers working, early childhood education and care as well as solemn international declarations of children's rights are examples of the ongoing politicization of childhood.

Drawing both on micro and macro, national and comparative studies, this volume of "Comparative Social Research" traces some of the trends and analyzes in comparative perspective how they affect images and practices of childhood and transforms responsibilities for children.

The volume's focus is mainly on children in the developed countries, but attention is also paid to transnational diversities and to the impact of globalisation through the experiences of migrant children and of children living through the processes of modernization in the developing world.

CONTENTS

Part I: Policies of childcare

• Childhood: Changing Contexts(Arnlaug Leira and Ciara Saraceno )

• Childcare Services in 25 European Union Member States: The Barcelona Targets Revisited(Jannecke Plantenga, Chantal Remery, Melissa Siegel and Loredana Sementini)

• Policy packages for families with children in 11 European countries: multiple approaches(Jeanne fagnani and Antione Mach)

• The 'mening' of children in Dutch and German family policy (Trudie Knijn and Ilona Ostner)

Part II: Children in an ageing society

• Changes in children's age and generation mosaics: Challenges to research and policy(Gunhild O. Hagestad)

• Grandchildhood in Germany and Italy: An exploration (Wolfgang Keck and Chiara Saraceno)

• Children's welfare in ageing Europe: Generations apart?(An-Magritt Jensen)

Part III: Diversities of childhood

• First born in Amsterdam: The changing mother-child setting (Cecile Wetzels)

• Changing childhoods: Migrant children and the confrontation of uncertainty (Nadina Christopoulou and Aonja de Leeuw)

• Diverse childhoods: Implications for childcare, protection, participation and research practice (Andy West, Claire O'Kane and Tina Hyder ersen)

• Childhood: A homogenous generational group?(Maria Carmen Belloni and Renzo Carriero)

• Street youth's life-course transitions (Cecilia Benoit, Mikael Jansson, Helga Hallgrimsdotter and Eric Roth)

Part IV: Changing discourses of childhood

• Children, new social risks and policy change: A LEGO future? (Jane Jenson)

• Investing in children and childhood: A new welfare policy paradigm and its implications(Ruth Lister)

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Year 2008
Hardbound
ISBN: 0-7623-1379-X
408 pages
Price: USD 99,95 / EUR 82,95