Böcker av Chris Jenks

aeo The first book to engage the study of childhood with central issues of sociological theory. aeo The three authors are highly respected and widely read in this area. aeo The book draws together an enormous amount of international research.

This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases.

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in social theory, this work offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, and more, it presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to the works of Tonnies and Durkheim. Jenks also analyses subcultures in American urban sociology and criminology. Finally, he evaluates the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School and argues for the continuing relevance of subcultures.

Investigating the social factors that make up the knowledge of children and childhood, this book aims to promote a greater appreciation of this stage of life. Viewing childhood from a social constructionist perspective, it gives a framework through which to understand private attitudes and public policy in relation to the child.

Best-selling author David Bohm suggests that collective thought and knowledge have become so automated that we are in large part controlled by them, with a subsequent loss of authenticity, freedom and order.

The works included in this collection are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasize the "new", covering modernist and post-modernist perspectives of urban culture. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered in an urban context from around the globe.