Main group 1

• Christensen, Pia; James, Allison, Research with children: perspectives and practices, London, Falmer Press, 2000Compulsory*
• Corsaro, William A., The sociology of childhood., 2. ed., Thousand Oaks, Pine Forge Press, 2005Compulsory*
• James, Allison; Jenks, Chris; Prout, Alan, Theorizing childhood., Cambridge ; New York, Polity Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Prout, Alan, The future of childhood: towards the interdisciplinary study of children, London, RoutledgeFalmer, 2005Compulsory*

Main group 2

• Aarsand, Pål, Computer and Video Games in Family Life: The digital divide as a resource in intergenerational interactions., Part of: Childhood: a global journal of child research, 2007, p. 235–256Compulsory*
• Danby, Susan, How to become masculine in the block area, Part of: Childhood: a global journal of child research, 1998, p. 151–175Compulsory*
• Evaldsson, Ann-Carita, Staging insults and mobilizing categorizations in a multiethnic peer group, Part of: Discourse & society., 2005, p. 763–786Compulsory*
• Forsberg, Lucas, Involving parents through school letters: mothers, fathers and teachers negotiating children's education and rearing., Part of: Ethnography and education, 2007, p. 273–288Compulsory*
• Goodwin, Marjorie Harness, Exclusion in girls’ peer groups: Ethnographic analysis of language practices on the playground, Part of: Human development: an international journal, 2002, p. 392–415Compulsory*
• Halldén, Gunilla, Barnperspektiv som ideologiskt eller metodologiskt begrepp., Part of: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, 2003, p. 12–23Compulsory*
• Sheldon, Amy, You can be the baby brother, but you ain't born yet: Preschool girls' negotiation for power and access in pretend play, Part of: Research on language and social interaction, 1996, p. 57–80Compulsory*
• Sparrman, A.; Aronsson, K., Pog game practices, learning and ideology: local markets and identity work, Part of: Investigating educational policy through ethnography, Amsterdam ;a Boston, JAI, 2003, p. 169–192Compulsory*

Main group 3

• Eder, Donna; Evans, Catherine Colleen; Parker, Stephen, School talk: gender and adolescent culture, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, cop. 1995
• Goodwin, Marjorie Harness, He-said-she-said: talk as social organization among Black children, Bloomington, Ind., Indiana Univ. Press, 1990
• James, Allison; Prout, Alan, Constructing and reconstructing childhood: contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood, London, Falmer, 1990
• Qvortrup, Jens, Studies in modern childhood: society, agency, culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Thorne, Barrie, Gender play: girls and boys in school, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993

Main group 4

• Klerfelt, Anna, Var ligger forskningsfronten: 67 avhandlingar i barnpedagogik under två decennier, 1980-1999, Stockholm, Skolverket, 2002

* Compulsory