Join BookitisSave favorites, build lists, and follow creators.

Le Jouet et ses usages sociaux

Work detail

Bookitis Pick
Cover for Le Jouet et ses usages sociaux
LJ
Image source: Open Library
Sandrine Vincent1 editions

This scholarly work examines the social dimensions of toys and playthings, exploring how toys function as cultural artifacts that reflect and shape social values, relationships, and identities. Drawing on anthropological and sociological perspectives, the author investigates the ways in which toys serve as tools for socialization, education, and cultural transmission across different societies and historical periods. The study considers toys not merely as objects of childhood amusement, but as significant elements in understanding broader patterns of human behavior, social construction, and cultural meaning-making. Through careful analysis of toy design, marketing, and usage, this book reveals how seemingly simple play objects embody complex social dynamics and contribute to the formation of individual and collective identities.

Overview

Shared work-level identity and catalog context.

1 credited authorSearch language french

Bookitis keeps work pages focused on the shared book identity and the editions that actually belong to it. Unrelated books should not appear here as primary content.

Contributors

People credited with this work in the active catalog.

  • Sandrine Vincent

    Author profile in the active Bookitis catalog

    Open Author

Editions

Publication-specific versions linked to this work only.