Chris Jenks

Chris Jenks is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunei University. His previous books include: Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledge (Routledge 1976), Worlds Apart - Readings for a Sociology of Education [with J. Beck, N. Keddie and M. Young} (Collier-Macmillan 1977); Towards a Sociology of Education [with J. Beck, N. Keddie and M. Young} (Transaction 1977); The Sociology of Childhood (Batsford 1982); Culture (Routledge 1993, 2005); Cultural...See more

Chris Jenks is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunei University. His previous books include: Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledge (Routledge 1976), Worlds Apart - Readings for a Sociology of Education [with J. Beck, N. Keddie and M. Young} (Collier-Macmillan 1977); Towards a Sociology of Education [with J. Beck, N. Keddie and M. Young} (Transaction 1977); The Sociology of Childhood (Batsford 1982); Culture (Routledge 1993, 2005); Cultural Reproduction (Routledge 1993); Visual Culture (Routledge 1995); Childhood (Routledge 1996); Theorizing Childhood [with A. James and A. Prout} (Polity 1998); Core Sociological Dichotomies (Sage 1998); Images of Community: Durkheim, Social Systems and the Sociology of Art [with J.A. Smith] (Ashgate 2000); Aspects of Urban Culture (Academia Sinica 2001); Culture: Critical Concepts -- 4 Volumes (Routledge 2002); Transgression (Routledge 2003); Urban Culture -- 4 Volumes (Routledge 2004); Subculture: Fragmentation of the Social (Sage 2004); and Qualitative Complexity [with J.A. Smith] (Routledge 2005). He is interested in sociological theory, post-structuralism and heterology, childhood, cultural theory, visual and urban culture, and extremes of behaviour See less