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Childhood and Society | 
 enlarge | Author: Erik H. Erikson
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 180202
Media: Paperback
Pages: 397
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0099532913
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9780099532910
ASIN: 0099532913
Publication Date: April 20, 1995
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Containing accounts of the author's field work among Sioux and Yurok Indians, and an examination of the American, German and Russian characters, this is an interpretation of human life on psychological lines. Using case histories as springboards for theoretical discussion of the formative years of childhood, Professor Erikson identifies human life as a delicate balance between bodily, mental and social influences. The main chapters are devoted to anxiety in young children, apathy in American Indians, confusion in veterans of war, and arrogance in young Nazis.
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 Interesting, But Not Exactly for the People-Magazine-Type Reader May 20, 2008
Franklin the Mouse (Gorham, ME USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mr. Erikson wrote a thought-provoking book, but it is certainly a product of his times. Such notions as homosexuality being deviant (his word, not mine) behavior and was more of a symptom of a psychologically damaged individual has not held up to present scientific evidence. Overall, the book is a fascinating dissection of childhood development and how it possibly manifests itself in adulthood. But reading this material wasn't exactly a cake walk. I doubt many casual readers could wade through Mr. Erikson's book without developing MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over) Syndrome. For what it's worth, I enjoyed most of it.
"Childhood and Society" Erik H. Erikson May 14, 2007
Steven H. Weinograd (massachusetts)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An Uber-Classic--Required reading for anyone in psychology. No! make that anyone, period.
Don't worry, You are only having an 'Identity- crisis'. May 9, 2006
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book published in 1950 was Erikson's breakthrough book, the first one by which he became known to a wide popular audience. Certain of the ideas formulated in this book have become part of the language of our general culture, most notably the concept of 'identity- crisis'.
At the heart of the theoretical framework of this work is Erikson's conception of eight- stages of life.
The first of these stages he calls the 'oral- sensory'.It involves the conflict between basic trust and mistrust.
The second is called the muscular- anal involving the confluct between Autonomy and Shame and Doubt.
The third is the Locomotor Genital involving the conflict between Initiative and Guilt.
The fourth is the Latent involving the conflict between Industry and Inferiority.
The fifth is Adolescence where the Identity- Crisis comes into play at a time of Role- confusion.
The sixth is Young Adulthood in which Intimacy is in conflict with Isolation.
The seventh is Adulthood where Generativity conflicts with Stagnation.
The final is 'Maturity' or "Old Age' where Despair threatens Ego Integrity.
In this work Erikson brings case - history, comparitive anthropological data in showing how the human personality is transformed during the person's lifetime also through its encounters with Society . A pioneering work of great importance.
A classic and food for thought April 3, 2000
69 out of 79 found this review helpful
Read it just because it's a classic or read it because it has interesting things to say for today. Read it because it's so well written. The narrative just flows, and before you know it you've absorbed some pretty important concepts.Erikson addresses nothing less than the role of psychology in the world, and the role of childhood in our social worlds. It's a combination of the clinical, the social, and the developmental, a combination of psychology and history. Case studies are presented and large themes are addressed. "...we are also forced to recognize a universal blind spot in the makers and interpreters of history," writes Erikson, "... they ignore the fateful function of childhood in the fabric of society" (p. 404). Whether or not you agree with all Erikson says, you will find it food for thought.
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