Rabelais and His World.

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/4511387.pdf

The origins of order. Self-organization and selection in evolution

The perspective of `children as social actors' has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the social study of childhood. These concern, for example, t...

Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children

Notions of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ are intrinsic to childhood research. Whilst the ‘being’ child is seen as a social actor actively constructing ‘childhood’, the ‘becoming’ child is seen as an ‘adult in the making’, lacking competencies of the ‘adult’ that he or she will ‘become’. However, I argue that both approaches are in themselves problematic. Instead, theorising children as ‘being and becomings’ not only addresses the temporality of childhood that children themselves voice, but presents a conceptually realistic construction suitable to both childhood researchers and practitioners.

Children as ‘Being and Becomings’: Children, Childhood and Temporality

Most educated people nowadays know that we share over 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees. It does not disconcert us. The Victorians may have reacted with outrage to the proposition that we share our ancestors with the great apes, but we now live comfortably with the knowledge of our cousinhood.

We also share 50% of our DNA with bananas. This is a little harder to come to terms with. We cannot know how the bananas feel about it, but many humans may experience a frisson on learning this fact. The frisson may only be a faint echo of the existential horror that Darwin's contemporaries had to deal with. All the same, it gives us some sense of the blow that he delivered to their self‐esteem.

Modern doctors have a somewhat peculiar relationship with Darwinism and evolutionary biology. The problem is not one of disbelief. Only a small minority of doctors still have anti‐Darwinian views about the origin of species or the descent of man. No doubt they continue to defend these in the same way that the Inquisition …

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Darwin's dangerous idea.

An archaeology of childhood - the discovery of childhood the image of the child the evolution of the child the child as emergent being - the child's relations with others embodiment and child development the emergence of mind within sociality origins of the child in myth and dream - abandoning the child reveries toward childhood a paradigm of guilt - Oedipus Rex toys constraining the child to order - the socialization of the child and the internationalization of social value orientations childhood the rise of the child-saving movement madness is childhood the child at work and play - the lore and language of school children the everyday world of the child the work of little children the play of little children comparative approaches to childhood the necessity and significance of comparative research in developmental psychology early childhood experience and later education in complex cultures the child in social time - eight ages of man the problem of generations historical development of the multiplicity of times and implications for the analysis of ageing.

The Sociology of childhood: Essential readings

Mapping the Concept Trace Elements in the Classical Tradition The Chicago School The Missing Narrative I Parsonian Systems Theory The Missing Narrative II Some Anomalous Cases The Modern Concept Birmingham CCCS Conclusion Identity and Dispersion

Subculture: The Fragmentation of the Social

Introduction - Chris Jenks Structure/Agency - David F Walsh Continuity/Change - Fran Tonkiss Fact/Value - Sue Stedman-Jones Local/Global - Les Back Qualitative/Quantitative - David Silverman Normal/Pathological - Clive Seale Culture/Nature - Helen Thomas Relativism/Absolutism - Sue Stedman-Jones Public/Private - Don Slater Sex/Gender - Joanne Entwhistle Race/Ethnicity - Jean Popeau Idealism/Materialism - David F Walsh Nationalism/Internationalism - Josep Llobera Theory/Practice - Paul Filmer Civil/Political - Fran Tonkiss Active/Passive - Chris Jenks Subject/Object - David F Walsh Image/Text - Paul Filmer Needs/Wants - Don Slater Life/Death - Clive Seale High/Mass - Paul Filmer Modernity/Postmodernity - Helen Thomas and David F Walsh Work/Leisure - Don Slater

Core Sociological Dichotomies

Part 1: The Interdisciplinary Field 1. Complexity Theory: A Positioning Paper 2. From Descartes' Conjecture to Kant's Subject and the Computo 3. Autopoiesis in Cognitive Biology 4. Emergentism, Evolutionary Psychology and Culture 5. Prigogine's Thermodynamics, Ontology and Sociology Part 2: Critical Developments 6. Modernism and Determinism: Linear Expectations and Qualitative Complexity Analyses 7. Complexity Theory as a Critique of Postmodernism 8. Cognition and the Renewal of Systems Theory: Redundant Idioms and Disputed Positions 9. The Evolution of Intelligence, Consciousness and Language: Implications for Social Theory 10. Complexity, Language and Culture: Social Systems in Qualitative, i.e. not Formal Terms Part 3: The Fields of Complex Analysis: Contemporary Complexity Theory 11. The Ethics of Pragmatism: Politics and Post-Structuralism in Transition after the Complexity Turn 12. The Topology of Complexity 13. Re-Interpreting Global Complexity as an Ontology: Human Ecology

Chris Jenks

Papers

The Sociology of childhood: Essential readings

Subculture: The Fragmentation of the Social

Core Sociological Dichotomies

Qualitative Complexity: Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory

Culture: Second edition