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New edition of this bestselling undergraduate textbook, adopted in sociology and education departments throughout the world.
Preadolescent Peer Cultures
Preadolescent Peer Cultures
When does childhood end? That is a hard question to answer. Defining the boundaries of childhood (and deciding on the range and limits of our consideration of the sociology of childhood) is a difficult task. Childhood is a social construction that is clearly related to, but not determined by, physical maturation, cultural beliefs about age, and institutional age grading.
For the purposes of this book, childhood includes preadolescence, which is generally defined as the period from 7 to 13 years of age. Given the scope of this book, we will not be able to discuss the transition to adolescence or adolescent peer culture in detail. In the field of sociology, however, adolescence has received much more attention than childhood, and ...
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