Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany. His work is marked by a mystical sense of God and death. Born in Prague on Dec. 4, 1875, Rainer Maria Rilke grew up in a middle-class milieu he called "petit bourgeoi...

Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the major poets of twentieth-century literature. In the collections with which his early verse culminates, Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Pictures, 1902; enlarged, 1906) and Das Stunden-Buch (1905; translated as The Book of...

Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the major poets of twentieth-century literature. In the collections with which his early verse culminates, Das Buch der Bilder (The Book of Pictures, 1902; enlarged, 1906) and Das Stunden-Buch enthaltend die drei Bücher:...

Bourdieu’s theory of practice has proved influential in research broadly concerned with ‘socialization’. His work, and that of the sociologist Giddens, informs various studies that have reformulated the ‘socialization’...

The anthropological study of institutionalized learning, and of formal education systems, usually focuses on rather different questions, often related to *power. This is true, for instance, of Bourdieu’s work on French education; his models...

. In medieval France, people defined childhood according to the Roman categories of the Ages of Man: early childhood ended at age seven, and puberty was legally established at age twelve for girls, fourteen for boys. A great deal of legal capacity and...

Studies of children have been central to the development of the social sciences, and especially of psychology, but the social scientists’ perspective tended to project onto all children, everywhere, an idea of childhood that was peculiarly...

Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between infancy and...

Rhonda Sanders received an eye-opening letter from her daughter's school three years ago: At age 10, her 5-foot, 137-pound child was heavier than 98 percent of her peers. After a regimen that included the family jumping rope in...

From a sculpture of a pigtailed girl with four eyes to a photograph of a self-conscious teenager on the beach, works in the "Pretty Baby" art exhibit demonstrate that childhood can be anything but simple.The exhibit features the creations of more than a dozen artists...

The gym routine for 11-year-old Daniel Alvarado mixes music and games with jump ropes and stationary bikes. But like the other children sweating through workouts, he doesn't come just for fun. He is following doctor's orders.The apple-cheeked boy, diagnosed last year with high cholesterol, is...

By most accounts, Michael Devlin had a childhood a lot of kids might envy.An early life in sprawling, graceful homes in one of St. Louis' finest suburbs. A ready-made group of friends in his five siblings. And model-citizen parents whose life centered on their two...