| Resumo: | Just over a decade sociology has shown greater interest in studying children and their relations with other social groups. In large part, this interest is not isolated from society in general, since in recent years have witnessed the emergence of a great debate about children, shown by the numerous discussions about it in the media as well as the various sciences that began to contextualize it. Taking for granted that the social phenomenon of childhood is influenced by macro-forces, this article aims to show the conceptual changes in the field of sociology that allowed the emergence of the sociology of childhood, contributing to its spread, and show that the interest in general about the children also hides certain paradoxes related to childhood, especially in the context of social changes in contemporary society.
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