《大萧条的孩子们》内容简介
1930年代，美国经济雪崩，大萧条袭来，而对处于此背景的孩子来说，意味着什么？危机，危机，为什么有些孩子更多感受到“危”，有些孩子却抓住了“机”？
社会学一代宗师格伦·H.埃尔德教授
近40年深入追踪167个不同出身的孩子
首度展现生于大萧条时代儿童的人生历程
埃尔德教授将来自劳动阶级和中产阶级的167个孩子，根据其家庭经济受损/未受损状况，分为四个群体，综合运用历史学、社会学和心理学的研究方法，对其进行了从少年到青年再到中年，从求学到婚恋以至事业的纵向研究。这些孩子的独立性、自尊心、社交力、抱负心、成熟度、责任感、理财能力、教育程度、职业生涯、金钱观、生活方式、婚恋观、家庭观、育儿观、幸福度等受何影响？各群体间有何区别？
生命历程理论的开山之作，科学而硬核的人生答案书。
作者简介
[美]格伦·H.埃尔德（GlenH.Elder,Jr.）
生于1934年，美国北卡罗来纳大学社会学奥登杰出教授和社会学研究教授,美国艺术与科学院院士。曾任美国社会学学会副会长、儿童发展研究学会会长、社会学研究协会会长,先后获得包括美国社会学协会最高奖W.E.B.杜波依斯奖在内的二十余项杰出贡献奖、杰出成就奖。
埃尔德教授对于生命历程理论、研究方法和相关的研究具有开创性贡献。他通过深度访谈、数据整理等等方法跨越个体和群体（比如出生组）一生的不同时期，探讨变化的环境是如何对于他们的生命产生影响的。他关注个体和社会结构是如何在时间和空间上和社会结构相互关联，强调个体经历的时空维度对于理解其行为和发展具有重要意义。他的研究对社会学、发展心理学和教育学等领域产生了深远的影响，并因此享誉美国社会学界。
他著述颇丰,主要作品有《大萧条的孩子们》时空中的孩子们》《生命历程研究方法》《土地之子》《生活在边缘》等。
Children of the Great Depression
What did it mean to be a child in the 1930s, when the American economy collapsed and the Great Depression hit? Crisis, crisis, why do some children feel more "crisis" and some children seize the "opportunity"?
Professor Glenn H. Elder, the great master of sociology
Nearly 40 years of in-depth tracking of 167 children from different backgrounds
First look at the life of a child born during the Great Depression
Professor Elder divided 167 children from the working class and the middle class into four groups according to their family's economic impairment or non-impairment. Using historical, sociological and psychological research methods, he conducted longitudinal research on them from adolescence to young adulthood to middle age, from school to marriage and career. How are these children's independence, self-esteem, social ability, ambition, maturity, responsibility, financial ability, education level, career, money outlook, lifestyle, marriage outlook, family outlook, parenting outlook, happiness, etc.? What are the differences between groups?
Life course theory of the beginning of the work, scientific and hardcore life answer book.
About the author
GlenH.Elder,Jr.
Born in 1934, he is Auden Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Vice president of the American Sociological Association, President of the Child Development Research Association, president of the Sociological Research Association, and has won the highest award of the American Sociological Association, W.E.B. More than 20 outstanding contribution awards and outstanding achievement awards, including the Du Bois Award.
Professor Elder has made pioneering contributions to life course theory, research methods and related research. He uses in-depth interviews, data collation, and other methods to explore how changing circumstances affect the lives of individuals and groups (such as birth groups) at different times in their lives. He focuses on how individuals and social structures are interlinked with social structures in time and space, emphasizing that the spatiotemporal dimension of individual experience is important for understanding their behavior and development. His research has had a profound impact on the fields of sociology, developmental psychology, and education, and is well known in the American social community.
He is the author of many books, including Children of the Great Depression, Children in Time and Space, Methods for Studying the Course of Life, Children of the Land, and Living on the Edge.
