Published in 1996, this book advocates and persuasively exemplifies a qualitative sociology of childhood, spoken repeatedly through children's voices.

1. Children and the Sociology of Childhood, Butler. 2. Unbroken Voices: Children, Young People and Qualitative Methods, Shaw. 3. 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. Who is the Fairest of Them All?' Involuntary Childlessness and Identity, Selwyn. 4. I Don't Eat Peas Anyway! Classroom Stories and the Social Construction of Childhood, Pugsley, Coffey, Delamont. 5. Growing Up Respectable, Parry. 6. 'Safe'? Involving Children in Child Protection, Butler, Williamson. 7. Whose Life is it Anyway? Crowley. 8. Accounting for 'Child Prostitution', Crowley, Patel. 9. How do Young Asian and White People View their Problems? A Step Towards Child-focused Research, Katz. 10. So Much for 'Participation': Youth Work and Young People, Williamson.