The Sociology of Childhood by William A Corsaro

The Sociology of Childhood by William A Corsaro

This text shows how children contribute to both social stability and social change through a process of interpretive reproduction. It also stresses the conceptual autonomy of children.

William A. Corsaro was Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Chair and is now Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he won the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Career Award for the Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association in 2013. He taught courses on the sociology of childhood, childhood in contemporary society, and ethnographic research methods. His primary research interests are the sociology of childhood, children’s peer cultures, the sociology of education, and ethnographic research methods. Corsaro is the author of Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years (1985), author of “We’re Friends, Right?” Inside Kids’ Culture (2003), and coauthor with Luisa Molinari of I Compagni: Understanding Children’s Transition From Preschool to Elementary School (2005). He is the coeditor with Jens Qvortrup and Michael-Sebastian Honig (2009) of The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Corsaro was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Bologna, Italy, in 1983-1984 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in Trondheim, Norway, in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2016 and was recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2019.

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ISBN 13	9780803990111
ISBN 10	0803990111
Title	The Sociology of Childhood
Author	William A Corsaro
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	1997-04-07
Number of pages	320
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