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Most Americans take it for granted that a thirteen-year-old in the fifth grade is "behind sc... more Most Americans take it for granted that a thirteen-year-old in the fifth grade is "behind schedule," that "teenagers who marry "too early" are in for trouble, and that a seventy-five-year-old will be pleased at being told, "You look young for your age." Did an awareness of age always dominate American life? Howard Chudacoff reveals that our intense age consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, he explores a wide range of topics, including demographic change, the development of pediatrics and psychological testing, and popular music from the early 1800s until now. "Throughout our lifetimes American society has been age-conscious. But this has not always been the case. Until the mid-nineteenth century, Americans showed little concern with age. The one-room schoolhouse was filled with students of varied ages, and children worked alongside adults.... [This is] a lively picture of the development of age consciousness in urban middle-class culture." --Robert H. Binstock, The New York Times Book Review "A fresh perspective on a century of social and cultural development."--Michael R. Dahlin, American Historical Review
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Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990
Contemporary Sociology, 1992
Context -- Age groups -- Microsocial -- Women -- Labor market -- Labor and management -- Social s... more Context -- Age groups -- Microsocial -- Women -- Labor market -- Labor and management -- Social stratification -- Social relations -- State and service institutions -- Mobilizing institutions -- Institutionalization of social forces -- Ideologies -- Household resources -- Lifestyle -- Leisure -- Educational attainment -- Integration and marginalization -- Attitudes and values.
The pioneering Soviet developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky argued early in the century that ch... more The pioneering Soviet developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky argued early in the century that children's development could be understood only in its relationship to history. But he and his followers have never quite accomplished this prescription. This article maintains that we can only understand development as history when we think simulateously about how changing contexts affect what children appropriate from them, and how children's appropriations modify the contexts that guide development. This formulation implies, and the article explores, certain qualities that historical accounts possess. V ygotsky's `zone of proximal development', it is maintainted, should be studied historically within an account of the working of formal organizations. The article concludes with an illustration of the proposed approach, focusing upon an episode in the recent history of schooling.
Children in Time and Place, Developmental and Historical Insights
British Journal of Educational Studies, 1993
... 0-521-41784-8 hardback ISBN 0-521-47801-4 paperback Transferred to digital printing 1999 ... ... more ... 0-521-41784-8 hardback ISBN 0-521-47801-4 paperback Transferred to digital printing 1999 ... tions provide a central theme, from historical transitions to the social transitions of children and their ... This book has two stories to tell-one about children growing up and coming of age ...
Into One's Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975
Into One's Own: from Youth to Adulthood in America, 1920-1975 (U Cal Press, 1989), 1989
Into One's Own: from Youth to Adulthood in America, 1920-1975 (Berkeley: University of California... more Into One's Own: from Youth to Adulthood in America, 1920-1975 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) Spanish translation by Olga Abasolo Pozas, De la Juventud a la Edad Adulta en Los Estados Unidos 1920-1975 (Madrid: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, 1991).
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1992
J. William Frost writes at the start of his illuminating account of religious liberty in Pennsylv... more J. William Frost writes at the start of his illuminating account of religious liberty in Pennsylvania that his subject has found a small place in the histories of American religious freedom. A brief survey of recent studies-including Thomas J. Curry, The First Freedoms: Church and State in America to the Passage oj the First Amendment; Leonard Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment; William Lee Miller, The First Liberty: Religion and the American Republic; and the important essays edited by Mark A. Noll in Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s-will confirm Frost's point. While historians consistently defer to the influence of William Penn and the significance of Pennsylvania's religious pluralism for the "lively experiment" of religious freedom, meaningful assessment of these subjects is consistently bypassed in favor of lengthy discussions of Roger Williams, Isaac Backus, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and the advancement of freedom of conscience in New England and Virginia. This is no great news to colonial scholars of the Middle Atlantic who continue to contend with the underestimation of their region's importance in the creation of the republic. Yet, as Frost writes, from its founding "Pennsylvania stood for non-coercion of conscience, divorce of the institutional church from the state, and the cooperation of the church and state in fostering morality necessary for prosperity and good government" (p. 2). For its choice of subject alone, Frost's book is a major contribution. Despite the apparently narrow focus on one state, the study also incorporates the best aspects of an all-encompassing synthesis. In 165 pages of text Frost takes on such fundamental subjects as William Penn's ideas of natural law, freedom of conscience, and toleration; the Quakers' simultaneous attempts to apply principles of toleration and moral control to Pennsylvania's expanding population; the pre-Revolutionary conflict between Quakers and Presbyterians over Pennsylvania's peace policies (here Frost presents a lucid explanation of the religious ingredients of the controversy, usually and sometimes opaquely described as exclusively political); the place of religious liberty in the ideology of the framers of Pennsylvania's 1776 and 1790 constitutions and the United States Constitution; ideas of Pennsylvania's enlightenment thinkers, including James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine (without slighting, it should be added, Jefferson and Madison); and the positions taken by antebellum politicians, clergymen, and judges on freedom of religion in tandem with such issues as trade unionism, Sunday school education, 3208 3212 I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete
Tradition and Opportunity: The Japanese Immigrant in America
Pacific Historical Review, 1971
IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Japan began experiencing far-reaching demographic changes which ma... more IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Japan began experiencing far-reaching demographic changes which manifested themselves in a wide variety of ways. One of these was the Japanese attempt to gain political hegemony in Asia; another was the development of "a continuous and ascending movement of Japanese emigration."I The thrift and perseverance of those migrants whose ultimate destination was the United States are well known, as is the hostility shown them by white America. But the story of the internal differentiation of the JapaneseAmerican community has been, in the main, untold.2 This paper, based on retrospective evidence gathered by a structured interview schedule administered in the early 1960s to a representative sample of Issei (Japanese immigrants) living in the continental United States, will attempt to examine statistically the circumstances of the migration and some of the long-term consequences for those who undertook
It as Besides a Pleasant English Word : Ruth Benedict's Concept of Patterns in Culture Theory and Cultural Criticism in Boasian Anthropology
Anthropological Quarterly, 1989
Le concept de modele, ses significations pour R. B. (dans son ouvrage : Patterns of Culture, Bost... more Le concept de modele, ses significations pour R. B. (dans son ouvrage : Patterns of Culture, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1934), et les influences des theories de l'esthetique (R. Fry notamment) et de mouvements litteraires
When may social capital influence children's school performance?
Youth Unemployment and Society, 1994
... that single parents versus couples provided (net of the influence of various correlates), but... more ... that single parents versus couples provided (net of the influence of various correlates), but no ... Such patterns of behavior increase in prevalence with children's ages, along with a shift in ... themselves, and this reality in turn may operate to legitimize (or delegitimize) the subject ...
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