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Reconsiderando a nova sociologia da infância Reconsidering the new sociology of childhood

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dc.creator Alan Prout
dc.date 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:14:14Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:14:14Z
dc.identifier 10.1590/S0100-15742010000300004
dc.identifier 0100-1574
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/d220058bf4404f0893cdb22c6f6d1ac7
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16671
dc.description Apesar do forte desenvolvimento e da alta produtividade nos últimos anos, a Sociologia da Infância parece estar sem rumo atualmente. Este artigo explora o problema, indicando possíveis causas e apontando algumas soluções. Argumenta-se que a construção de uma Sociologia da Infância implicou uma dupla tarefa: criar um espaço para a infância no discurso sociológico e enfrentar a crescente complexidade e ambiguidade da infância como um fenômeno contemporâneo e instável. Sustenta-se que, embora se tenha criado um espaço para a infância, isto se deu, em grande medida, nos termos de sociologia moderna, que se mostrava cada vez mais incapaz de lidar adequadamente com o mundo instável da modernidade tardia. Um aspecto importante desse problema revela-se pela reprodução, na Sociologia da Infância, das oposições dicotomizadas que caracterizaram a sociologia moderna. Três dessas oposições (ação e estrutura, natureza e cultura, ser e devir) são exploradas. Sugere-se que para libertar a Sociologia da Infância do controle desse pensamento moderno é preciso desenvolver uma estratégia para incluir o terceiro excluído. Entre outras coisas, isso pode exigir maior atenção à interdisciplinaridade, ao hibridismo do mundo social, às suas redes e mediações, à mobilidade e à relação entre gerações.<br>Despite its energetic development and high productivity during the last period, the sociology of childhood seems currently to be experiencing a loss of direction. This paper explores this problem, suggesting what its causes may be and pointing to some possible remedies. It is argued that the construction of a sociology of childhood entailed a double task. First, space had to be created for childhood within sociological discourse. Second, the increasing complexity and ambiguity of childhood as a contemporary, destabilised phenomenon had to be confronted. It is argued that, whilst a space for childhood has been created, this was accomplished largely in terms of modernist sociology, a discourse that was increasingly unable to deal adequately with the destabilised world of late modernity. An important aspect of this problem is apparent in the reproduction within the sociology of childhood of the dichotomised oppositions that characterise modernist sociology. Three of these oppositions (agency and structure, nature and culture, being and becoming) are explored. It is suggested that moving the sociology of childhood beyond the grip of such modernist thinking entails developing a strategy for 'including the excluded middle'. Inter alia this may necessitate greater attention to interdisciplinarity, the hybridity of the social world, its networks and mediations, mobility and the relationality of generation.
dc.language Portuguese
dc.language Spanish
dc.language English
dc.publisher Fundação Carlos Chagas
dc.relation http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-15742010000300004
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/0100-1574
dc.rights CC BY-NC
dc.source Cadernos de Pesquisa, Vol 40, Iss 141, Pp 729-750 (2010)
dc.subject sociologia
dc.subject infância
dc.subject antropologia
dc.subject crianças
dc.subject sociology
dc.subject childhood
dc.subject antropology
dc.subject children
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Reconsiderando a nova sociologia da infância Reconsidering the new sociology of childhood
dc.type article


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