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230074 SE Children, Society and Risk (2018S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie

Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Sa 03.02.2018 10:00 to Th 22.02.2018 10:00
Registration is open from Su 25.02.2018 10:00 to Tu 27.02.2018 10:00
Deregistration possible until Tu 20.03.2018 23:59

Details

max. 25 participants

Language: German

Lecturers

Ravinder Barn

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 08.03. 09:00 - 11:15 Seminarraum H10, Rathausstraße 19, Stiege 2, Hochparterre
Thursday 08.03. 11:30 - 16:15 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Friday 09.03. 09:00 - 16:15 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock
Saturday 10.03. 09:00 - 16:00 Inst. f. Soziologie, Seminarraum 2, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Located within a theoretical framework of modern society and risk theory, this course examines risk and vulnerability in relation to children and young people. Notions of childhood, children’s rights, citizenship, social harm and risk theory will be explored in the context of child welfare policy.

Students will gain knowledge and understanding of key debates in relation to children, society and risk, childhood, children’s rights, citizenship, social harm; and an awareness of empirical and theoretical studies in this area of scholarship. Within the framework of child rights laws such as the UNCRC, students will develop a critical understanding of the complex relationship between the notions of protection, provision and participation rights of children.

The course will be taught via a range of methods including didactic teaching, small group exercises, and seminar discussion. In the lectures, the key ideas and arguments in relation to each given topic will be presented. Small group exercises, and seminar discussions are designed to deepen your knowledge of the topic under consideration, to give you the chance to develop your own ideas and to engage with the ideas of your classmates. Seminars are also an opportunity for you to clarify any problems you have encountered with the lecture material or with the readings.

Assessment and permitted materials

This course will be assessed through small group discussion, and an end of course quiz on the final day.

Hinweis der SPL: bei Feststellung einer erschlichenen Teilleistung (Abschreiben, Plagiieren, Ghostwriting, etc.) muss die gesamte Lehrveranstaltung als geschummelt gewertet und als Antritt gezählt werden.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Aldserson, P. (2008) Young Childr's rights, London: JKP

Barn, R. (2017) Transracial Adoption: White American Adoptive Mothers' Constructions of Social Capital in Raising Their Adopted Children, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1384556

Barn, R. (2013) "Doing the right thing" - Transracial Adoption in the USA, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(8), 1273-1291

Beck, U. (2000) Risk society revisited: theory, politics and research programmes, In Adam, Barbara et al; The risk society and beyond: critical issues for social theory, Sage, http://wxy.seu.edu.cn/humanities/sociology/htmledit/uploadfile/system/20100829/20100829141749524.pdf

Bhabha, J. (2004) Seeking Asylum Alone: Treatment of Separated and Trafficked Children in Need of Refugee Protection, Harvard University.

Skivenes, M; Barn, R; Križ, K; Pösö,T. (eds) (2015) Child welfare systems and migrant groups: International perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press.

Cunningham, H. (2005) Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500, Pearson

Goldson, B., Lavalette, M. & McKechnie, J. (eds) (2002) Children, Welfare and the State. Sage: London

Hendrick, H. (2005) Child Welfare and Social Policy: An essential reader, Bristol: Policy Press

Hendrick, H. (2008) Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Horvath, M. A., Alys, L., Massey, K., Pina, A., Scally, M., & Adler, J. R. (2013) Basically... porn is everywhere: a rapid evidence assessment on the effects that access and exposure to pornography has on children and young people, Middlesex University.

Jones, P. and Walker, G. (2011) Children’s rights in practice, Sage

Kehily, M.J. (2008) An Introduction to Childhood Studies, Open University Press

Livingstone, S., & Third, A. (2017) Children and young people’s rights in the digital age: An emerging agenda, New Media and Society, 19(5), 657-670

Lupton, D., & Williamson, B. (2017). The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights.New Media & Society,19(5), 780-794

Parton, N (2006) Safeguarding Children: Early Intervention and Surveillance in a Late Modern Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Smith, R. (2009) A Universal Child, Palgrave Macmillan

Smolin, D.M. (2010) Child Laundering and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption: The Future and Past of Intercountry Adoption, Bepress Legal Series.

United Nations. Convention on the Rights of the Child. UN, New York, 1989. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf

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