In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the life course of his subjects over two generations. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic study includes a new chapter on the war years entitled,?Beyond Children of the Great Depression.?

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Children Of The Great Depression : 25th Anniversary Edition

Glen H Elder, Jr

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Routledge

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Boulder, Colo, 1999

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Boulder, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

25th ed, Boulder, 2018

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Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Foreward by Urie Bronfenbrenner
Foreward by John A. Clausen
Acknowledgments
I: Crisis and Adaptation: An Introduction
1 The Depression Experience
The Research Problem and Approach
Socioeconomic Conditions in Oakland and the Nation
Researching the Past: A Cautionary Note
2 Adaptations to Economic Deprivation
Deprivation and Adaptations in the Family
Status Change in Personality and Achievement
Adaptive Potential and Personality
II: Coming of Age in the Depression
3 Economic Deprivation and Family Status
Economic Deprivation and Father's Worklife
Social Factor in Economic Change
Family Adaptations in Economic Maintenance
Some Effects of Status Loss on Parents
Review
4 Children in the HousehoId Economy
Children's Economic and Domestic Roles
Children's Tasks as a Developmental Experience
The Downward Extension of Adultlike Experience
5 FamiIy Relations
Economic Deprivation and Marital Power
Parents as Significant Others
View of Family and Parents from Adulthood
Economic Change in Family Experience: A Summary View
6 Status Change and Personality
Children's lmage of Self and Others
Self-Orientations and Social Status
Social Status and Striving
Social Change and the Self: A Concluding Note
III: The Adult Years
7 Earning a Living: Adult Lives af the Oakland Men
Adult Status in the Life Course of the Oakland Cohort
Vocational Development in Worklife Experience
Occupational Attainment in the Life Course
Men's Values: A Legacy of the Depression?
A Resumé
8 Leading a Contingent Life: Adult Lives of the Oakland Women
Contingencies in a Woman's Life
Events and Patterns in the Life Course
Economic Deprivation in the Life Course
"A Woman's Place is in the Home"
The Depression Experience in Women's Roles
9 Personality in Adult Experience
Childhood Deprivation in Adult Health
Parenthood as Problem Situation and Growth Experience
Reviewing the Past
Perspectives on Politics and the Future
IV: The Depression Experience in Life Patterns
10 Children of the Great Depression
The Approach and Other Options
Depression Experiences in Pesonality and the Life Course
Central Themes from the Depression Experience
V: Beyond "Children of the Great Depression"
11 Beyond "Children of the Great Depression"
Early Thinking and Paradigmatic Principles
The Emergence of Life Course Theory
Turning Lives Around
Reflections
Epilogue
Notes
Reference
Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Sample Characteristics, Data Source, and Methodological Issues
Appendix C: On Comparisons of the Great Depression
Notes
Select Bibliograhy
Index
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"In this work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder, Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920-1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland. California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the life course of these Californians over two generations.
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic study includes a new chapter by the author which explores how World War II and the Korean War changed the lives of these Depression youth and a younger birth cohort (1928-29)."--BOOK JACKET.

First published in 1974, this study follows 167 individuals born in 1920-1921 from their school days in Oakland, California, to the 1960s. The author uses a combined historical, social and psychological approach to assess the influence of the economic crisis on the life course of his subjects.

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