"When children count". Children according to the official statistics and childhood as a social construction. Portugal, 1875-1925
Conference:
ECER 2002
Format:
Paper

Session Information

Session 10, Network 17 papers panel 4

Papers

Time:
2002-09-14
11:00-12:30
Room:
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences Room 1
Chair:
Frank Simon

Contribution

The documental construction of the social reality, reinforced by the emergence and consolidation of the Nation-State, finds in the national and official statistics its most visible expression. In this presentation statistics will be used as a privileged instrument to observe and understand the process of childhood's social construction in Portugal concerning the years between 1875-1925. We'll be finding support in areas such as Demography, Welfare and Justice, taking into account the age-curve, the terminology used to register children and the institutions whose care they were placed to. Resorting to the statistics as a research instrument as far as children and childhood is concerned implies, from the theoretic-methodological perspective, a way of "speaking" with them and at the same time making them "speak".

Author Information

University of Porto
University of Porto
University of Porto

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