Professorship of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies

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In everyday life, children are seen primarily as beings in need of education and learning who naturally lack experience and knowledge. However, this not only underestimates the practical achievements that children contribute to the maintenance of everyday order, but also hides essential aspects of the social organization of childhood.
 
In contrast, we essentially understand children as an age group characterized by social inequalities, who are assigned fewer rights, duties, and resources compared to others (primarily adults, but also older children or adolescents) – regardless of the actual contributions children perform in everyday life.
 
As a category of social inequality, childhood cannot be thought of in a homogeneous way, neither historically nor globally, but remains bound to socially varying structures of growing up. Accordingly, childhood is understood as a highly institutionalized life phase, whose definition and shaping by school, family, and expert entrepreneurships structure the objective chances for future life courses of young people, but which also make up a central element of social order in general.
 
Hence, our focus is the social organization of childhood by its respective institutions (especially professions) as well as the resulting consequences for involved groups of actors, foremost the children themselves. Our research is concerned with the degree to which children are taken into account in child protection, by the knowledge about children that is collected (or lacking) and made available and used (for example, about their experiences of violence and in the pandemic), and by the spatial-material structuring of childhoods.

  1. 2024
  2. DGS-Sektionenkonferenz 2024

    Lars Alberth (Organiser), Alexandra König (Organiser) & Jessica Schwittek (Organiser)

    15.09.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. 8th DARE Conference – Decisions, Assessment, Risk, and Evidence in Social Work

    Lars Alberth (Organiser)

    19.06.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  4. Das Private im Fokus der Sozialarbeit: Ein kindheitssoziologischer Blick auf Elternschaft

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    24.05.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Die Institutionalisierung der Kindzentrierung als sozialpolitische Orientierung und professioneller Wissensbestand

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    20.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Jahrestagung der Sektion Soziologie der Kindheit in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie - 2024

    Lars Alberth (Organiser), Tanja Betz (Organiser), Karin Kämpfe (Organiser) & Britta Menzel (Organiser)

    18.04.202420.04.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Verschweigen, Beschwichtigen, Rechtfertigen. Zu den institutionellen Reaktionen auf die Stimme der Kinder im Kinderschutz

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    11.03.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 2023
  9. Digitale Vortagsreihe: Social Pedagogy in Diverse Societies

    Anke Karber (Organiser), Lars Alberth (Organiser), Philipp Sandermann (Organiser), Claudia Equit (Organiser) & Birte Siem (Organiser)

    14.11.202330.01.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  10. Aus der Perspektive von Kindern (forschen)?!

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    13.10.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Forschungsethik in der Kindheitsforschung: Problematisierungen, Standards und Strategien

    Lars Alberth (Speaker)

    27.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. ISA XX World Congress of Sociology

    Lars Alberth (Organiser) & Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Organiser)

    28.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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