502 - Section on Children and Youth Invited Session. Research with Children and Youth: Lessons for Social Theory

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Rather than treating the study of childhood as being only about children, this panel seeks to highlight the ways that research with children and youth can contribute to conversations and debates in the field more broadly. Scholars of other marginalized groups have frequently challenged the idea that the study of these groups is more specific and less generally relevant than the study of dominant populations. This panel makes a similar move in regard to children and childhood, bringing together papers that each show how studying children and young people's lives and experiences, and thinking carefully about childhood and youth as social categories, can profoundly alter our understandings of larger social processes and the theories we use to explain the social world.

Sub Unit

• Section Invited

Session Organizer

• Jessica Karen Taft, University of California-Santa Cruz

Presider

• Jessica Karen Taft, University of California-Santa Cruz

Panelists

• Nick Lee, University of Warwick

• Andreana L. Clay, San Francisco State University

• Tey Meadow, Harvard University

Discussant

• Allison Pugh, University of Virginia