Children and Society

By Tania Sweeney Adam Jamrozik

A critique of how Australia's free-market society regards and rears children. Topics include the culture's construction of childhood, the continuing importance of social class, welfare as social care and social control, the effectiveness of the 'caring' professions and provisions for health, education and childcare. Professor Jamrozik teaches sociology and social work at SA universities and is the author of 'How Australians Live'. Sweeney is a consultant on the cost of government in the NSW premier's department.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0732931894
• ISBN13: 9780732931896
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.1"