scholarly journals Socjologia dzieciństwa: dyskusja nad pozycją dziecka w socjologii

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
Łukasz Albański
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Base ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Young Branch ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood ◽  
Classical Sociology

This article addresses the issue of constructing childhood sociologically. Classical sociology focused on the transformation of children into reliable adult social actors, namely on the process of socialization. In contrast, the sociology of childhood, as a relatively young branch of the discipline, is sensitive to the place of children in society. Therefore, the sociology of childhood explores the very idea of the child rather than treats the child as a being with a relatively determined trajectory. The article presents sociology’s conceptual base and its different approaches to the child. In particular, the central concepts of the childhood sociology are outlined and critically discussed.

scholarly journals PROTAGONISMO INFANTIL, DESAFIOS ÉTICOS E METODOLÓGICOS NA PESQUISA COM CRIANÇAS

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Kelly Werle ◽  
Cláudia Ribeiro Bellochio
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Challenge ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Child Education ◽  
Education School ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood ◽  
Historically Situated

Este artigo focaliza o protagonismo infantil, desafios éticos e metodológicos no desenvolvimento de pesquisa com a participação de crianças da Educação Infantil. Como aporte teórico tem-se os estudos da sociologia da infância (CORSARO, 2011; SARMENTO, 2003; QVORTRUP, 2011), compreendendo a criança como ator social, historicamente situado, que nas interações com seus pares e com o contexto social produz culturas. Destaca-se a necessidade do pesquisador estar, constantemente, buscando estratégias éticas e metodológicas que possibilitem compreender o modo como as crianças narram, significam e recriam suas experiências junto aos pares, proporcionando visibilidade às culturas da infância, produzidas pelas diferentes formas de protagonismos infantis.Palavras-chave: Pesquisa com crianças. Culturas da infância. Protagonismo infantil.CHILDREN AS PROTAGONISTS, ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE IN RESEARCHINGABbstract: This article focuses on children acting as protagonists and on the ethical and methodological challenges during the development of the research that had the participation of kids from a Child Education School. As theoretical support, it was chosen the studies concerning the Sociology of Childhood (CORSARO, 2011; SARMENTO, 2003; QVORTRUP, 2011), which understand children as social actors, historically situated, and who produce culture when interacting with their peers. It is highlighted that the researcher needs to be constantly searching for ethical and methodological strategies to better understand how kids narrate, give meaning and recreate the experiences with their peers giving visibility to the cultures of childhood produced by their different acts as protagonists.Keywords: Research with children. Cultures of childhood. Children as Protagonists.PROTAGONISMO INFANTIL, DESAFÍOS ÉTICOS Y METODOLÓGICOS EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN CON NIÑOSResumen: Este artículo enfoca el protagonismo infantil, desafíos éticos y metodológicos en el desarrollo de la investigación con la participación de niños de Educación Infantil. Se tienen como aporte teórico los estudios de sociología de la infancia (CORSARO, 2011; SARMENTO, 2003; OVORTRUP, 2011), comprendiendo al niño como actor social, históricamente situado, que produce culturas en la interacciones con sus pares y con el medio social. Se destaca la necesidad constante por parte del investigador de estar buscando estrategias éticas y metodológicas que posibiliten comprender la manera como los niños narran, significan, recrean sus experiencias junto con sus pares, proporcionando visibilidad a las culturas de la infancia, producidas por las diferentes formas de protagonismo infantil. Palabras clave: Investigación con niños. Culturas de la infancia. Protagonismo infantil.

scholarly journals Barndommens kroppe: Konstruktion, handling og hybriddannelse

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Alan Prout
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood

Alan Prout: Childhood bodies: construction, agency and hybridity This paper explores the relationship between the sociology of childhood and the sociology of the body. Noting that the two fields are marked by mutual neglect, it reviews some of the theoretical issues that underlie the enterprise of bringing them together. Three key themes emerge from this discussion. The first concerns social constructionism. Both fields draw on this theoretical approach and, it is argued, both meet its limits. The paper argues that social constructionist accounts of both childhood and the body tend to exclude (or at least de-emphasize) the possibility that social life has a material as well as discursive (or representational) component. The second theme is that of children’s agency in the interpretation, negotiation and utilisation of their bodies. Seeing children as social actors balances a former emphasis on the socialization of children by highlighting the ways in which they are also agents, participants shaping as well as being shaped by society. However, it is argued that the sociology of childhood has tended to essentialise children’s agency rather than decentering it and analyzing it as an effect. The third theme draws on actor network theory in order to unravel some of the ways in which children’s bodies are inextricably interwoven with other aspects of the material environment – artifacts, machines and technologies. Children’s bodies emerge as hybrid entities. They are inseparable from, produced in, represented by and performed through their connections with other material objects. This line of enquiry feeds back into the question of children’s agency by reconstituting it less as an essential attribute of children and more as an effect of the connections made between a heterogeneous array of materials including bodies, representations and technologies.

scholarly journals PROTAGONISMO INFANTIL, DESAFIOS ÉTICOS E METODOLÓGICOS NA PESQUISA COM CRIANÇAS

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Werle ◽  
Cláudia Ribeiro Bellochio
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Methodological Challenge ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood ◽  
Historically Situated

Este artigo focaliza o protagonismo infantil, desafios éticos e metodológicos no desenvolvimento de pesquisa com a participação de crianças da Educação Infantil. Como aporte teórico tem-se os estudos da sociologia da infância (CORSARO, 2011; SARMENTO, 2003; QVORTRUP, 2011), compreendendo a criança como ator social, historicamente situado, que nas interações com seus pares e com o contexto social produz culturas. Destaca-se a necessidade do pesquisador estar, constantemente, buscando estratégias éticas e metodológicas que possibilitem compreender o modo como as crianças narram, significam e recriam suas experiências junto aos pares,proporcionando visibilidade às culturas da infância, produzidas pelas diferentes formas de protagonismos infantis.Palavras-chave: Pesquisa com crianças. Culturas da infância. Protagonismo infantil.CHILDREN AS PROTAGONISTS, ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE IN RESEARCHINGAbstract: This article focuses on children acting as protagonists and on the ethical and methodological challenges during the development of the research that had the participation of kids from a primary school. As theoreticalsupport, studies concerning the Sociology of Childhood (CORSARO, 2011; SARMENTO, 2003; QVORTRUP, 2011) were chosen, which understand children as social actors, historically situated, and who produce culture when interacting with their peers. It is highlighted that the researcher needs to be constantly searching for ethical and methodological strategies to better understand how kids narrate, give meaning and recreate the experiences with their peers giving visibility to the cultures of childhood produced by their different acts as protagonists.Keywords: Research with children. Childhood cultures. Children as Protagonists.PROTAGONISMO INFANTIL, RETOS ÉTICOS Y METODOLÓGICOS EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN CON NIÑOSResumen: Este artículo enfoca el protagonismo infantil, retos éticos y metodológicos en el desarrollo de la investigación con la participación de niños de la Educación Infantil. Se tienen como aporte teórico los estudios desociología de la infancia (CORSARO, 2011; SARMENTO, 2003; OVORTRUP, 2011), comprendiendo al niño como actor social, históricamente situado, que produce culturas en la interacciones con sus pares y con el medio social.Se destaca la necesidad constante por parte del investigador de estar buscando estrategias éticas y metodológicas que posibiliten comprender la manera como los niños narran, significan y recrean sus experiencias junto con sus pares, proporcionando visibilidad a las culturas de la infancia, producidas por las diferentes formas de protagonismos infantiles.Palabras clave: Investigación con niños. Culturas de la infancia. Protagonismo infantil.

Social Logics in Reproduction Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Reproductive Health Care ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
And Child Health

The issue that underlies a worrying question of maternal and child health in Côte d'Ivoire is that of social logic. Social logic is perceived as "cultural constructions of actors with regard to morbidity that cause to adopt reproductive health care". Based on this understanding, the concept of social logic in reproductive health is similar to a paradigm that highlights the various factors that structure and organise sociological resistance to mothers' openness to healthy reproductive behaviours; that is, openness to change for sustainable reproductive health. Far from becoming and remaining a prisoner of blind culturalism with the social logic that generates the health of mothers, new-borns and children, practically-relevant questions are raised. Issues of "bad governance", socio-cultural representations and behaviours in conflict with modern epidemiological standards are addressed in a culturally-sensitive manner, an important issue for the provision of care focused on the needs of mothers seeking answers to health problems. Developing these original community characteristics helps to orient a reading list in a socioanthropological perspective with a view to explaining and understanding different problems encountered, experiences acquired by social actors during the implementation of antenatal, postnatal and family planning care. This context of building logic with regard to reproductive health care is key to identifying real bottlenecks in maternity services and achieving efficient management of maternal, new-born and child health care for the benefit of populations and actors in the public health sector.

Challenges to immigrant associations and NGOs in contemporary Greece

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apostolos G. Papadopoulos ◽  
Christos Chalkias ◽  
Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Migrant Integration ◽  
Concentration Patterns

The paper explores the challenges faced today, in a context of severe economic crisis, by immigrant associations (ΙΜΑs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Greece. The data analysed here was collected between October 2009 and February 2010 and incorporates references to all recorded migration-related social actors operating in Greece. The paper takes into account such indicators as legal form, objectives, financial capacity and geographical range of activity, concluding with a typology of civil society actors dealing with migration issues. This study aims at informing the migration policymaking and migrant integration processes. By a spatial hot-spot clustering of IMAs and NGOs, we also illustrate the concentration patterns of civil society actors in Greece.

Land Use Change and Commodity Frontiers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Cáceres ◽  
Esteban Tapella ◽  
Diego A. Cabrol ◽  
Lucrecia Estigarribia
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Management Recommendations

Argentina is experiencing an expansion of soya and maize cultivation that is pushing the agricultural frontier over areas formerly occupied by native Chaco forest. Subsistance farmers use this dry forest to raise goats and cattle and to obtain a broad range of goods and services. Thus, two very different and non-compatible land uses are in dispute. On the one hand subsistance farmers fostering an extensive and diversified forest use, on the other hand, large-scale producers who need to clear out the forest to sow annual crops in order to appropriate soil fertility. First, the paper looks at how these social actors perceive Chaco forest, what their interests are, and what kind of values they attach to it. Second, we analyze the social-environmental conflicts that arise among actors in order to appropriate forest’s benefits. Special attention is paid to the role played by the government in relation to: (a) how does it respond to the demands of the different sectors; and (b) how it deals with the management recommendations produced by scientists carrying out social and ecological research. To put these ideas at test we focus on a case study located in Western Córdoba (Argentina), where industrial agriculture is expanding at a fast pace, and where social actors’ interests are generating a series of disputes and conflicts. Drawing upon field work, the paper shows how power alliances between economic and political powers, use the institutional framework of the State in their own benefit, disregarding wider environmental and social costs. 

Entanglements between Agency and Vulnerability in the Phenomenon of Birth. Reflections on Children’s Expressions about ‘Being Born’

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2-2020) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Catrin Heite ◽  
Veronika Magyar-Haas
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Embeddedness

Analogously to the works in the field of new social studies of childhood, this contribution deals with the concept of childhood as a social construction, in which children are considered as social actors in their own living environment, engaged in interpretive reproduction of the social. In this perspective the concept of agency is strongly stressed, and the vulnerability of children is not sufficiently taken into account. But in combining vulnerability and agency lies the possibility to consider the perspective of the subjects in the context of their social, political and cultural embeddedness. In this paper we show that what children say, what is important to them in general and for their well-being, is shaped by the care experiences within the family and by their social contexts. The argumentation for the intertwining of vulnerability and agency is exemplified by the expressions of an interviewed girl about her birth and by reference to philosophical concepts about birth and natality.

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