Children in Time and Place
Developmental and Historical Insights

Glen H. Elder, Jr (Edited by), John Modell (Edited by), Ross D. Parke (Edited by)

9780521478014, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 1994

304 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.505 kg

'Children in Time and Place is both enlightening and stimulating. It is an excellent introduction to new interdisciplinary work that has enormous potential for contributing to the fields of developmental psychology, history, and sociology. The volume has an impressive scope and clearly demonstrates the promise and accomplishments of this kind of interdisciplinary collaboration, both conceptually and operationally.' Paul Mussen, University of California, Berkeley

Each generation of American children across the tumultuous twentieth century has come of age in the different world. How do major historical events - such as war or the depression - influence children's development? Children in Time and Place brings together social historians and developmental psychologists to explore the implications of a changing society for children's growth and life chances. transitions provide a central theme, for historical transitions to the social transitions of children and their developmental experiences.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. A Proposal: 1. Studying children in a changing world
Part II. Historical and Life transitions: 2. America's home front children in World War II
3. Rising above life's disadvantage: from the Great Depression
4. Child development and human diversity
Part III. Life Transitions Across Historical Time: 5. Problem girls: observations on past and present
6. Continuity and change in symptom choice: anorexia
7. Fathers and child rearing
Part IV. The Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: 8. The workshop enterprise
9. The elusive historical child: ways of knowing the child of history and psychology
10. A paradigm in question: commentary
11. Epilogue
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]