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Part 1 of the framework suggests that an engagement with structure provides a starting point from which to consider individual action. Th is chapter examines the backdrop that the social agent comes to engage with as part of negotiating interactions. It is a backdrop that refl ects the extent to which understandings around the child are based on constructed images which have been shaped by a range of social factors. Our intial focus, therefore is on the socially constructed nature of childhoods, with specifi c reference to the moral images of the child that this process creates.
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Frankel, S. (2017). Engaging with Structure. In: Negotiating Childhoods. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-32349-1_3
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