Childhood And Society
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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A cornerstone of twentieth-century psychological thought, Childhood and Society presents Erik H. Erikson's landmark investigation into the relationship between early human experience and the formation of identity, culture, and society. Drawing on case studies, anthropological fieldwork with Native American tribes, and rigorous psychoanalytic theory, Erikson argues that childhood is not merely a preparatory phase but the very crucible in which a society's character is forged — a bold claim that permanently reshaped the fields of developmental psychology and sociology. Erikson's prose is at once scholarly and deeply humane, weaving together clinical observation with cultural analysis to illustrate how tribes and nations unconsciously harness child-rearing practices to perpetuate their own particular form of mature human identity. The work introduces his now-iconic Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development, a framework that remains foundational in psychology, education, and social theory to this day. For anyone seeking to understand not just how children grow, but why societies are the way they are, this seminal text poses questions that continue to resonate — and unsettle — decades after its first publication.
Author: Erik H. Erikson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A cornerstone of twentieth-century psychological thought, Childhood and Society presents Erik H. Erikson's landmark investigation into the relationship between early human experience and the formation of identity, culture, and society. Drawing on case studies, anthropological fieldwork with Native American tribes, and rigorous psychoanalytic theory, Erikson argues that childhood is not merely a preparatory phase but the very crucible in which a society's character is forged — a bold claim that permanently reshaped the fields of developmental psychology and sociology. Erikson's prose is at once scholarly and deeply humane, weaving together clinical observation with cultural analysis to illustrate how tribes and nations unconsciously harness child-rearing practices to perpetuate their own particular form of mature human identity. The work introduces his now-iconic Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development, a framework that remains foundational in psychology, education, and social theory to this day. For anyone seeking to understand not just how children grow, but why societies are the way they are, this seminal text poses questions that continue to resonate — and unsettle — decades after its first publication.