Children, Family and the State

Children, Family and the State

A Critical Introduction

Creasy, Rob; Corby, Fiona

Bristol University Press

03/2023

230

Mole

Inglês

9781447368953

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction


1.1 Why Read This Book


1.2 Bronfenbrenner's Socio-Ecological Model


1.3 Piaget and Vygotsky


1.4 How Does Society Influence Children's Development?


2. The Family


2.1 What Is a Family?


2.2 Seeing the Things We Do for Love as a Script To Be Followed


2.3. How Have Relationships Changed?


2.4. Does Reflexivity Mean That We Project Manage Our Own Lives?


2.5. How Discourse Makes Us Believe the Way Families Behave Is Natural


2.6 How Does Discourse Have Power?


2.7 How State Governance Draws Upon Discourse


2.8 How Might You Use This Chapter


3. Parenting and Failing Families


3.1 How Does the State Regulate Families


3.2 Is It the Case That What Parents Do Is More Important Than Who Parents Are?


3.3 Does Social Class Influence Parenting?


3.4 Should the State Help Parents?


3.5 What Do We Mean by Failing or Troubled Families


3.6 Can Failing Families Be Seen as Part of an Underclass?


3.7 Murray and the Start of Concerns


3.8 Being Critical and Using This Chapter


4. The State


4.1 Why Is the State Relevant to Studying Children and Families?


4.2 Can the State Do Things That Individuals Cannot?


4.3 How Values Shape What the State Does


4.4 What Do We Mean by the State


4.5 How the State Can Regulate the Context of Your Life


4.6 Should We Give Up Personal Freedoms and Let the State Have More Power?


4.7 Considering the Power of the State


4.8 Rights, and Some Arguments for Restricting or Removing Them


4.9 Removing Rights Because of Who, or What, You Are


4.10 Democracy and Populism


4.11 Making Use of This Chapter in an Assignment


5. The Relevance of Political Ideologies


5.1 What Do We Mean by Political Ideologies


5.2 Making Sense of Left and Right in Politics


5.3 Neoliberalism: Individuals, Free Markets and Inequality


5.4 Neoconservatism: Morals, Culture Wars and Nationalism


5.5 Social Democracy: Equal Opportunities, Social Inclusion and the Third Way


5.6 Communitarianism


5.7 Social and Cultural Capital


5.8 What You Can Do With This Chapter To Make Your Assignments Stronger


6. Welfare, Policy and the Family


6.1 How Is Ideology Put Into Practice


6.2 How Does Ideology Underpin Welfare?


6.3 How Have Ideas About the Family Shaped Welfare Services?


6.4 Deserving, Undeserving and the Problem of Need


6.5 How Can We Ensure That Welfare Only Goes to the Deserving?


6.6 How the State Shapes Family Life


6.7 So What?


7. Wellbeing


7.1 What Do We Mean by Wellbeing


7.2 Does Wellbeing Represent Individualisation?


7.3 Inequality and Wellbeing


7.4 The Key Ideas That Really Should Be in an Essay


8. Vulnerable Children


8.1 A Discourse of Children As Naturally Vulnerable


8.2 Policy and Need


8.3 What Is the Social Context of Vulnerability?


8.4 What Might You Use in an Essay Out of This Chapter?


9. Resilience


9.1 Why Is Resilience Important?


9.2 What Do We Mean by Resilience


9.3 Can Parents Help To Develop Resilience


9.4 Why We Need Adversity


9.5 What Can I Do With This?


10. Risk


10.1 Children, Risk and Resilience


10.2 The Move Towards Individual Responsibility, Reflexivity and Choice


10.3 Are We Protecting Children When We Remove All Risks?


10.4 Where Do I Fit This In


11. Safeguarding


11.1 How Culture and Values Define a Child in Need and a Child Being Harmed


11.2 Should We Keep All Children and Young People Safe?


11.3 Sex, Technology and Risk


11.4 The Social and Political Context


11.5 Making Use of This in Assignments


12. Life-Chances, Inequalities and Social Mobility


12.1 How Life-Chances Explain Social Inequalities


12.2 How Life-Choices Explain Social Inequalities


12.3 What Social Inequalities and What Is Wrong With Inequality?


12.4 What Can the State Do About Inequalities?


12.5 Why Is In-Work Poverty Important


12.6 Why Housing Matters to Children


12.7 Is Social Mobility Important for Children?


12.8 Using This Chapter


13. What, There's No Conclusion?


13.1 So What?
Policy and ideology; Family and the state; Wellbeing and vulnerability; Politics and childhood; Family policy