"Birthday invitations, brought home triumphantly after school throughout the year, have recently become an everyday feature in the cultural and social world of the child. Through them, we can perceive a change in the place of the child in contemporary France. Birthday ritual can be considered as a symbol of the transformation of the position of children and of changes in the modes of socialization and sociability. Within the framework of a contribution to the emergence of a sociology of childhood, this article starts an attempt to define and to identify the place of the child as a social actor in this process. Thereby, the child can be considered as a product and as a producer of the ritual." (author's abstract)
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