Mural depicting Mary and baby Jesus (fourteenth century mural)
■ Families and households/Relationships
Sociologists have often overlooked childhood as a topic worthy of investigation. When they have studied it, the focus has often been on children’s natural transformation from ‘little savages’ into responsible adult members of society through the transforming power of socialisation. Instead, disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy and, increasingly, the neurosciences tend to dominate childhood studies. The knowledge they produce is routinely woven into societal assumptions and practices concerning nature, children and having a ‘proper childhood’ (Buhler-Niederberger 2010).
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