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Alice B. Smuts and John W. Hagen, Eds. History and research in child development. Chicago: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Serial No. 211, Vol. 50, Nos. 4-5. ix + 163 pp. $14.50 (Reviewed by William Kessen)


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
173 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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✦ Synopsis


Eight papers and several notes, a baker's dozen authors, the Monograph subtitles its spendiferous heading "In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Society.'' And so it is, in at least two ways more consequent than a birthday party. The collection, a selection from papers given at a convention held in 1983, marks yet again the mounting concern of psychologists, perhaps of social scientists more generally, about the past-the past of their subject matter, the past of their methods, and the past of their disciplinary organizations. Surely the concern and the appended writing of papers