ABSTRACT

This article outlines a childhood prism research program with a view to encouraging unique childhood research contributions to the wider scholarly field. It is argued that such a program must embrace both classical and emergent lines of thinking, and be underpinned by a unique childhood studies identity. Besides the fact that childhood offers a unique case for exploring many issues, its potential for making unique contributions is rooted in the generational order perspective. Thus, the suggested research program offers a rethinking of the field that detaches the generational order perspective, and the concepts of ‘generational order’ and ‘generationing’, from their specific theoretical origins and replaces them with a relational ontology and a flat epistemology, making use of the fact that childhood can constitute an extreme or paradigmatic case and can therefore potentially offer a diffractive sociological microscope on certain issues.

摘要

本文概述了一个儿童棱镜研究计划，旨在鼓励对更广泛的学术领域做出独特的儿童研究贡​​献。有人认为，这样的项目必须同时包含古典和新兴的思维方式，并以独特的童年研究身份为基础。除了童年为探索许多问题提供了一个独特的案例之外，它做出独特贡献的潜力植根于世代秩序的观点。因此，建议的研究计划提供了对领域的重新思考，该领域将世代秩序观点以及“世代秩序”和“世代”的概念从其特定的理论起源中分离出来，并用关系本体论和平面认识论取代它们，