Glen Elder (sociologist)

Glen Elder Holl, Jr. ( born February 28, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor of sociology and psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of his main areas of research are the positive and negative impact of poverty on the life course.

Biography

Elder studied at the Pennsylvania State University and Kent State University and graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill doctorate.

Scientific work

Elder led the 1962 approach of Kurt Lewin to parenting styles further and thus strongly influenced teacher education today.

One of his most important works is "Children of the Great Depression" (1974). The book was chosen in a poll of SRDC members as one of the most fascinating works of psychology since 1950.

The book looks at the lives of children, which were big at the time of the Great Depression and their families were poor. A distinction is made between children from the working class and children from the middle class. Children from the middle class seemed to become well-established personalities by poverty. They were even more successful than middle-class children, who had never been poor. Children from the working class suffered more under the impairments caused by poverty. But even here it can be said that the majority of them to normal people grew. Given the abject poverty at this time that's an achievement.

Elder brought by the work of a new perspective in sociology. He saw children and teenagers no longer as passive, but as competent actors. Children and young people are able to deal actively with the surrounding circumstances, and to make them to use to make their lives successful.

But at the same time are all children " children of their time and layer" and can of course only in the context of the historical possibilities that act to provide them.

Works

  • Glen H. Elder: Family structure and the transmission of values ​​and norms in the process of child rearing, Dissertation 1961, ISBN 0-405-12966-1
  • Glen H. Elder, Jr., Rand D. Conger, E. Michael Foster, Monika Ardelt: Families Under Economic Pressure. Journal of Family Issues 13 ( 1) 1992. Pp. 5-37
  • Rand D. Conger, Glen H. Elder, Jr., in collaboration with Frederick O. Lorenz, Ronald L. Simons, Les B. Whitbeck: Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America. Hawthorne, NY / Aldine DeGruyter, 1994.
  • Rand D. Conger, xiaojia Ge, Glen H. Elder, Jr., Frederick O. Lorenz, Ronald L. Simons: Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents. Child Development 65 (2 ), 1994. Pp. 541-561
  • Glen H. Elder, Jr., Laura Rudkin, Rand D. Conger: Intergenerational Continuity and Change in Rural America. Pp. 30-78 in Adult Intergenerational Relations: Effects of Societal Change, edited by Vern L. Bengtson, K. Warner Schaie, and Linda M. Burton. Springer, New York 1994.
  • Glen H. Elder, Jr., Elizabeth B. Robertson, D. Rand Conger: Fathers and Sons in Rural America: Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Ties Across the Life Course. Pp. 294-325 in Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by Tamara K. Hareven. Walter De Gruyter. Berlin 1996.
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