‘Time-Out’ in the Land of Apu Childhoods, Bildungsmoratorium and the Middle Classes of Urban West Bengal /

• Main Author: Sen, Hia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.

Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-we...

Table of Contents:

• Childhoods and Social Inequalities
• Sentiment, Middle Classes, and a Culture of Childhood in Bengal
• Talking to Children, and Talking about Childhoods
• The Bhadralok Culture and the Ethos of Education in Bengal
• Leisure Culture and Space
• Class, Gender, and Generation in Children’s Culture.