Books and articles:

Abbott: The Delinquent Child And The Home (1916);

Addams: The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909);

     -     The Child, the Clinic and the Court (1927);

Adelson, Joseph.  Inventing Adolescence: The Political Psychology of Everyday Schooling (1986);

Ariés, Philippe.  Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (1962);

Bernstein: Class, Codes and Control, 4 vols (1971, 1973, 1976, 1990); 

Boudon: Education, Opportunity and Social Inequality: Changing Prospects in Western Society (1974, in French 1973); 

Breckinridge: The Delinquent Child and the Home (1912);

Buchmann, Marlis.  The Script of Life in Modern Society: Entry into Adulthood in a Changing World (1989);

Chodorow: The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978);

Cicourel : The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice (1968);

Clausen, John.  American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Great Depression  (1993);

Coleman : The Adolescent Society (1961);

     -     Equality of Educational Opportunity  (1966);

     -     Relationships in Adolescence (1974);

Côté, James E. Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-Freeman Controversy (1994);

Davis, Kingsley.  ‘‘Adolescence and the Social Structure.’’ The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1944);

Dornbusch, Sanford.  ‘‘The Sociology of Adolescence.’’ Annual Review of Sociology (1989);

Douglas: Youth in Turmoil (1970);

Douvan, Elizabeth, and Joseph Adelson.  The Adolescent Experience (1966);

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N. From Generation to Generation: Age Groups and Social Structure (1956);

Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process (1994);

Erikson, Eric H. Childhood and Society (1963);

Fine: With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture (1987);

Gilman: Concerning Children (1903);

Goddard, J., McNamee, S., James, A., & James, A. L. (Eds.) The Politics of Childhood (2004);

Graff, Harvey J. Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America (1995);

Hall: Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain (1976);

Hall, G. Stanley.  Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education (1904);

Handlin, Oscar, and Mary F. Handlin.  Facing Life:Youth and the Family in American History (1971);

Hareven, Tamara. Family Time and Industrial Time:The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community (1982);

Hollingshead, August.  Elmstown’s Youth, The Impact of Social Classes on Adolescents (1949);

James, A. & Prout, A. (Eds.). Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood, 2nd edn. (1997);

James, A., Jenks, C. & Prout, A. Theorizing Childhood (1998);

Jenks, C. Childhood (1996); 

Jurkovic, Gregory J. Lost Childhoods: The Plight of the Parentified Child (1997);

Kett, Joseph F. Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present (1977);

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization (1928);

Meyer: The Expansion of the Autonomy of Youth (1971);

Mitterauer, Michael.  A History of Youth (1992);

Mortimer and Michael D. Finch, eds. Adolescents,Work, and Family: An Intergenerational Developmental Analysis (1996);

Musgrove, Frank.  Youth and the Social Order (1964);

Nan, Crouter and Michael Shanahan, eds. Transitions to Adulthood in a Changing Economy

Qvortrup, J. et al. Childhood Matters (1994);

Riesman, David. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (1950);

Schlegel, Alice, and Herbert Barry III.  Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry (1991);

Shaw: The Jack Roller: A Deliquent Boy's Own Story (1930);

     -     Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (1931);

Simmons, Roberta G., and Dale A. Blyth  Moving Into Adolescence: The Impact of Pubertal Change and School Context (1987);

Stephens, S. (Ed.). Children and the Politics of Culture (1995);

Stone, Lawrence.  The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 (1977);

Thomas D, Thomas W..:  The Child in America: Behavior Problems and Programs (1928);

Willis : Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs  (1977); 

     -     The Social Condition of Young People in Wolverhampton in 1984 (1985);

     -     The Youth Review (1988);

Vasta, R., S. A. Miller, and S. Ellis. Child Psychology (2003);

Waksler, F. C. (Ed.), Studying the Social Worlds of Children (2003);

Zelizer: Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1985).