ABSTRACT
[p. 320] The sociological problems raised by childhood fall into two main categories: the problems of social relationships between children and adults, and the problems of social relationships among children themselves. Before approaching these questions, however, it is necessary to situate them within the framework of sociology in general. This must be done because, if from a certain point of view they are a matter of two particular sociological problems among innumerable others, from another point of view they involve questions that are more general than one might think. The latter stems from the fact that education is one of the fundamental factors in social cohesion and that it arises precisely from social relationships between children and adults.
