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...