Sociología de la infancia: Las niñas y los niños como actores sociales

Abstract

The aim of this article is to explore the concept of childhood in sociology in general –by analyzing the ideas of socialization in contemporary-classical sociologists– and major theoretical premises of an emerging field of study called “Sociology of Childhood”. This perspective understands childhood as a permanent category in our societies –although its members are constantly renewed– and as a socially constructed phenomenon and historically variable. In addition, girls and boys are seen as social actors involved in different ways in social life, although differently from adults, perhaps because of that their social action is not always visible to the whole society.