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Theorising Trust — Citizenship Dynamics Conceptualisation of the Relationship Between Trust and Children’s Participation and Citizenship in Globalised Societies

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Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children’s Lives

Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth ((SCY))

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This chapter explores how sociological theories of trust can contribute to a dynamic and critical understanding of children’s participation and citizenship within the new sociology of childhood paradigm. Critical is understood here as a dialectical approach which is attentive to power relations and that illuminates dynamics of discrimination, disciplining and exclusion. Using the concept of trust for this purpose might seem a bit peculiar, as many sociological approaches to trust are functionalist rather than critical, including Luhmann’s perspective which informs this chapter. However, in line with Harré (1999), I will argue that a functionalist concept of trust can underpin a critical agenda and that this can be further reinforced using Bourdieu’s relational sociology and Delanty’s theory of cultural citizenship.

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Warming, H. (2013). Theorising Trust — Citizenship Dynamics Conceptualisation of the Relationship Between Trust and Children’s Participation and Citizenship in Globalised Societies. In: Warming, H. (eds) Participation, Citizenship and Trust in Children’s Lives. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295781_2

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