Childhood and Society

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Childhood & Society deals with the relationships between childhood training & cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile & the mature, the modern & the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as 'a rare & living combination of European & American thought in the human sciences'--Margaret Mead, The American Scholar Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood.