History of Childhood Sociology in The West

Abstract

This study is answering the question of how the history of childhood sociology is shaped. The topic of children has not been able to produce an area of its own within the discipline of sociology for many years. In the 1980s, studies emerging in the name of New Childhood Sociology began to treat the child as a social phenomenon, as a social actor, contrary to the classical sociological approach. This new way of handling childhood in the sociology discipline is also closely related to how childhood changes in the historical and social context. Studies show that there is no childhood perception in the West that is separated from adulthood in the middle ages. Childhood, redefined by modernization, has become an important issue in social sciences. Anthropology and sociology, especially psychology, have been directed towards childhood studies, but studies of sociology in childhood have not survived the dominant role of psychology for a long time. The theme of this study is based on the study of the historical process of childhood sociology, where a certain literature is formed and discussed.