Despite its long history as an important concept in sociological theory, there have been few
studies of children's peer culture. By peer culture, we mean a stable set of activities or …

▪ Abstract According to recent interpretive approaches to the study of children's socialization,
meaning creation is an active process by which children playfully transform and actively …

Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic
behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as …

" This is the best qualitative methods book I've seen, especially among books aimed at
undergraduate audiences."—Michael Irvin Arrington, Indiana State University Qualitative …

The Sixth Edition of William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt′ s groundbreaking text
discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective—providing in-depth …

You see it in every schoolyard: the girls play only with the girls, the boys play only with the
boys. Why? And what do the kids think about this? Breaking with familiar conventions for …

Sharing is the constitutive activity of Web 2.0. But when did 'sharing'become the term used to
describe the activities that constitute participation in Web 2.0? What does sharing mean in …

The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for
discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures …

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking
about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This …

" Tying shoelaces, jumping rope, listening to circle-time stories, Allison Pugh immersed
herself in the busy--and commercial-studded--worlds of schoolchildren. In this brilliantly …