A potent blend of ideas that informed, even inspired, many empirical studies of children's lives. Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood?: Provenance and Promise and Problems, Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An Interpretative Survey - 1800 to Present, Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Children's Needs, A Voice for Children in Statistical and Social Accounting: A Plea for Children's Right to be Heard, It's a Small World: Disneyland and the Family and the Multiple Re-Representation of American Childhood, Negotiating Childhood: Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children, Street Children: Deconstructing a Construct, Who are you Kidding?: Children and Power and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse, Childhood and the Policy Makers: A Comparative Perspective on the Globalization of Childhood, Re-presenting Childhood: Time and Transition in the Study of Childhood, Notes on Contributors, Index.