Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction

Geraldine Brady; Pam Lowe; Sonja Olin Lauritzen

doi:10.1002/9781119069522.ch1

Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction

Geraldine Brady
, Pam Lowe
, Sonja Olin Lauritzen

Coventry University
Stockholms universitet

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This chapter focuses on concepts and theoretical points of departure found in child health and wellbeing studies. Firstly, seeing children as a social group draws attention to the ways this group is placed and perceived in the structures of societies. Children as a social group need to be understood in relation to other social groups. Secondly, understanding children as social agents and as co-constructors of their social worlds is fundamental to studying their experiences and ways of dealing with health and wellbeing in everyday life. Thirdly, in recent years, there has been a turn towards seeing children as beings. The chapter discusses the child health issues and concerns in contemporary society. Children are diagnosed with an increasing range of conditions and are subject to more and more elaborate child health and welfare interventions, reflecting a medical perspective on the changing panorama of illness and health risks in the 21st century.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Children, health and well-being
Subtitle of host publication	policy debates and lived experience
Editors	Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe, Sonja Olin Lauritzen
Place of Publication	Chirchester (UK)
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-119-06952-2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-119-06951-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069522.ch1
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015

Publication series

Name	Sociology of health and illness monographs
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Number	2
Volume	37

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

child health
social group
sociology of childhood perspective

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Brady, G., Lowe, P., & Olin Lauritzen, S. (2015). Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction. In G. Brady, P. Lowe, & S. Olin Lauritzen (Eds.), Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experience (pp. 1-12). (Sociology of health and illness monographs; Vol. 37, No. 2). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069522.ch1

Brady, Geraldine ; Lowe, Pam ; Olin Lauritzen, Sonja. / Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing : introduction. Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experience. editor / Geraldine Brady ; Pam Lowe ; Sonja Olin Lauritzen. Chirchester (UK) : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. pp. 1-12 (Sociology of health and illness monographs; 2).

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Brady, G, Lowe, P & Olin Lauritzen, S 2015, Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction. in G Brady, P Lowe & S Olin Lauritzen (eds), Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experience. Sociology of health and illness monographs, no. 2, vol. 37, Wiley-Blackwell, Chirchester (UK), pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069522.ch1

Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction. / Brady, Geraldine; Lowe, Pam; Olin Lauritzen, Sonja.
Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experience. ed. / Geraldine Brady; Pam Lowe; Sonja Olin Lauritzen. Chirchester (UK): Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. p. 1-12 (Sociology of health and illness monographs; Vol. 37, No. 2).

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Brady G, Lowe P, Olin Lauritzen S. Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction. In Brady G, Lowe P, Olin Lauritzen S, editors, Children, health and well-being: policy debates and lived experience. Chirchester (UK): Wiley-Blackwell. 2015. p. 1-12. (Sociology of health and illness monographs; 2). doi: 10.1002/9781119069522.ch1

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