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Understanding inter‐generational relations: the case of health maintenance by children
Author(s) -
Mayall Berry
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.12227
Subject(s) - negotiation , embodied cognition , relation (database) , sociology , developmental psychology , period (music) , promotion (chess) , psychology , political science , social science , physics , database , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , acoustics , law
This paper aims to consider the sociology of childhood in relation to child health maintenance, restoration and promotion, through discussion of three intersecting themes: children as a minority social group; children as embodied social actors and children as agents in the inter‐generational division of labour. I build on my previous work on children's negotiations of their health status, at home and at school and review some important developments and research studies over the last 15 years or so. This period has seen the expansion of research on childhood, linguistically and geographically; and has focused attention on how children's health and well‐being relate to social expectations of them as paid workers and as schoolchildren.