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1 online resource |
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Introduction -- Growing Up Different: Childhoods and Social Inequalities -- Sentiment, Middle Classes and a Culture of Childhood in Bengal -- Talking to Children, and Talking about Childhoods -- 'Being Good at Studies': The Bhadralok Culture and the Ethos of Education in Bengal -- Afternoons after School: 'Leisure' Culture and Space -- Doraemon to Dance Lessons: Children, Leisure and Cultural Heritage -- Together and Apart: Class, Gender and Generation in children's Culture -- The Children From Memory -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts. Contents · Childhoods and Social Inequalities · Sentiment, Middle Classes, and a Culture of Childhood in Bengal · Talking to Children, and Talking about Childhoods · The Bhadralok Culture and the Ethos of Education in Bengal · Leisure Culture and Space · Class, Gender, and Generation in Children's Culture Die Zielgruppen · Researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of childhood sociology, sociology of social inequalities, social pedagogy, history, and education The Author Dr. Hia Sen studied sociology in Kolkata and New Delhi and completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is an Assistant Professor of sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata, India |
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sociologie |
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sociology |
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sociale wetenschappen |
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social sciences |
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Social Sciences (General) |
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Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen) |
| Notes |
Diss.-- University of Freiburg, 2012 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children -- India -- West Bengal -- Social conditions
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Middle class -- India -- West Bengal
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Children -- Social conditions
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Middle class
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Social conditions
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West Bengal (India) -- Social conditions
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India -- West Bengal
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783658022235 |
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365802223X |
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