Routledge Revivals
A Case of Neglect?
Published in 1996, this book advocates and persuasively exemplifies a qualitative sociology of childhood, spoken repeatedly through childrens voices.
After a long period of dormancy, interest in the sociology of childhood became a focus of attention and scholarly interest. Developments in practice by professionals working and learning in the fields of welfare, education, and youth and community studies have been paralleled by the emergence of specialist courses within sociology degrees. Yet the challenges raised by the sociology of childhood remain marginalised within the social sciences more generally.
A Case of Neglect? provides an accessible reader and review of the field. Heard wherever possible through childrens and young peoples voices, it provides a penetrating insight into their understandings and experiences of their own and adults worlds. It also provides a readable and absorbing review of qualitative applications in the sociology of childhood, and a counter to the common reliance on evidence derived from quantitative approaches.
The fieldwork applications range across the often hidden worlds of childrens and young peoples involvement in prostitution, their experience of abuse, black childrens experiences of social services, childrens school cultures, naturist children and childlessness.
Always arresting and sometimes poignant, A Case of Neglect? works towards a sociology which is both of and for childhood.
This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and texts discussing methodological developments and issues.
A Case of Neglect?
Childrens Experiences and the Sociology of Childhood
Edited by
Ian Butler and Ian Shaw
First published in 1996
by Ashgate Publishing Ltd
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1996 I. Butler and I. Shaw
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A Case of Neglect?
Childrens experiences and the sociology of childhood
Edited by
IAN BUTLER
IAN SHAW
I. Butler and I. Shaw 1996
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A case of neglect? : childrens experiences and the sociology of childhood. - (Cardiff papers in qualitative research)
1. Children 2. Children - Conduct of life 3. Socialization
I. Butler, Ian, 1955 - II. Shaw, Ian
305.2'3
ISBN 1 85972 048 X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-83222
Contents
Ian Butler
Ian Shaw
Julie Selwyn
Lesley Pugsley, Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont
Odette Parry
Ian Butler with Howard Williamson
Anne Crowley
Anne Crowley and Gera Patel
Ilan Katz
Howard Williamson
Ian Butler is Director of Social Work Studies at the University of Wales College, Cardiff. He worked for many years as a social work practitioner in both the voluntary and statutory sectors and as a Parliamentary Research Assistant, prior to taking up his current post. His recent publications include Children Speak; Children Trauma and Social Work (Longman 1994) - with Howard Williamson and articles in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Family Law and the International Journal of Family Care.
Amanda Coffey is a lecturer in the School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales College, Cardiff. She has published in the area of gender and education, occupational socialisation and qualitative research methods. Her recent publications include Making Sense of Qualitative Data (1996 Sage) - with Paul Atkinson, and articles in Gender and Education, Sociology and in Qualitative Studies in Education.
Anne Crowley is a consultant on childrens rights and childrens advocacy. She was, until 1995, Principal Advocacy Officer with the Childrens Society. Based in Wales, her work included policy development around the management of youth crime, institutional care and the provision of advocacy services for young people. Prior to taking up this post in 1989, she worked with young offenders in South East Wales.
Sara Delamont is Reader in Sociology in the School of Social and Administrative Studies at University of Wales College, Cardiff. She is the author of eight books including Inside the Secondary Classroom (with M Galton) and editor of eight others. Her main research interests are in the sociology of education.
llan Katz received his degree in Social Work at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1978. After qualifying he came to the UK and has worked as a social worker and social work manager in local authorities and voluntary organisations. His current post is National Evaluation Officer for the NSPCC, where he is involved with several projects evaluating child protection practice and has a part-time secondment to the Brunei University Centre for the Evaluation of Public Policy and Practice. His current research interests include comprehensive risk assessment, user empowerment, child witnesses and Area Child Protection Committees. In 1994 he received his doctorate on The Construction of Racial Identity in Infants of Mixed Parentage
