Children Belonging To Where?

Taboos put off the childhood while ripen it. The child wearing anklets step by step towards a social person since the moment of its birth.From the perspective of spatial sociology, this study analyzes the childhood spatial taboos with Soja, Edward W's "the third space"(social-spatial-historical perspective of three-dimensional analysis).This study tries to discuss the changes of childhood spatial taboos under the different spatial structures of traditional society and modern society, to reveal the underlying causes of the changes of spatial taboos,and to inquire the children social space, and then answer the question "where are the children?"Full-text consists of three chapters:Chapter one:The overview of the childhood spatial taboos. The primary coverage is exploring the childhood spatial taboos from Soja, Edward W's social-spatial historical perspective of three-dimensional analysis, which intertwined facts with metaphors, Concrete with abstract, reality with imagination. The childhood spatial taboos are one of the ways of the childhood spatial discipline by its nature. It is the spatial taboos that make children aware of their limits of behavior, learn social rules, and then be the disciplined individual.Chapter2:The primary coverage is describing the spatial order of traditional society and modern society and their childhood spatial taboos. The former representatives of the rural society while the latter representatives of the urban society. In the rural society, the body taboos are dominant, while the physical spatial taboos are less, and the taboos show the distinct hierarchy. In the part of urban society, it is about the description of the childhood spatial taboos in the family, kindergarten, schools and other public space. In the public space, children usually take the strategies of extending journey home and breaking taboos directly.Chapter3:The primary coverage is describing the changes of childhood spatial taboos from traditional society to modern society, inquiring the profound social causes of the changes. The changes shows the following trends:gender differences are reducing, while the public spatial taboos, the time-space taboos and the productive space taboos are increasing. In addition, the class differences are turning to the stratum differences and the ethical body is turning to the institutionalizing body. The changes of childhood spatial taboos are rooted in the process of formation of modernity, which is driven by time-space distanciation.Chapter4:The primary coverage is describing the methods of the colonization and resistance of childhood social space. At home, children adopt the strategy of leaving home and struggling with the door. In kindergarten and schools, children do the spatial colonization and resistance by the strategies of superficial compliance, outflanking tactics and direct confrontation. In addition, the electronic media expands the children's social space objectively.To ask "where are the children", to seek children' "exclave", maybe there is no answer, but the meaning of the seeking is in the process of the seeking. It is in the seeking process that we will discover more problems, the reality of the situation of children and strengthen our confidence to work for children.