ABSTRACT
This chapter makes an exploratory and discursive expedition into oddly unmapped territory. It is concerned with children, childhood, the body and social life, and with how emotions mediate between these. I do not seek to rehearse the literature on the body and the emotions; instead of making a critical analysis of this new field, I start from another new discipline, the sociology of childhood. I explore ways of incorporating children and childhood into sociological discourse on the importance of the emotions in social life.
