ABSTRACT
This chapter presents key questions sociologists consider when studying young people, findings from those studies, as well as a discussion of the methods they employ and data they analyze. It then discusses potential contributions sociology of children and youth may make to human rights research and what human rights scholarship may contribute to sociology of children and youth. Sociology of children and youth is a young subdiscipline that is experiencing growth all over the world. In 1984, a section on children and youth was established in the Nordic Sociological Association. The American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Children and Youth was founded in 1991 under the leadership of Professor Gertrud Lenzer, and the section of the German Sociological Association was set up in 1995. This chapter also reviews questions for future research arising from the intersection of human rights and sociology of children and youth.
