Fast Families, Virtual Children: A Critical Sociology of Families and Schooling - Hardcover

Agger, Ben; Shelton, Beth Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594513392 ISBN 13: 9781594513398

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have changed the ways in which people conduct their family lives, raise children, and navigate the blurry boundary between work and home. Private life is colonized by employers, teachers, corporations; family time is taken up by work, homework, and shopping. What it means to be parents and children has changed dramatically. This book shows how the nurturance of family has increasingly become a willful, radical idea in an era of pervasive technology. The authors analyze important trends, including the acceleration and attenuation of childhood, and offer a children s bill of rights and accompanying parental responsibilities."

About this title

About the Author:

Ben Agger is Professor of Sociology and Humanities at the University of Texas, Arlington, and Director of the Center for Theory. Renowned as a critical theorist, his latest book is entitled Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance (Paradigm 2013).

Review:

“From deep in the heart of Texas comes an unlikely vision of liberatory family values. Fast Families, Virtual Children weds a lucid critical sociology of families to an innovative children’s bill of rights. Take a nostalgic and restorative recess from your cell phones, PCs, home entertainment centers, and iPods to read and discuss this provocative book.”Judith Stacey, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1594513392
• ISBN 13: 9781594513398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208