La infancia contemporánea

• Main Authors: Miguel Ángel Gómez-Mendoza, María Victoria Alzate-Piedrahíta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Manizales 2014-05-01
• Series: Revista Latinoamericana en Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud
• Subjects: childhood; population; age group; boy or girl; early childhood; early childhood education; the mass media; children’s rights
• Online Access: http://revistalatinoamericanaumanizales.cinde.org.co/?page_id=2815

We present the analytical results of the consultation of a representative documentary “corpus” from the social research about the current status of the studies on childhood. The criteria to undertake the analysis and presentation of the results are: variety of social conceptions; historical origin and sociological perspective; the social experience of childhood; images or representations that society has thereof; the conflicting developments of children’s rights in terms of education and legal punishment; and the future of modern childhood as subject of the media. Historians, anthropologists, teachers, jurists and sociologists analyze the different systems of childhood representations constituted in time and space.