The historical context of G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence (1904)

History of Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 172-185

  Cravens, Hamilton ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; G. Stanley Hall; Historical analysis

Indexed keywords

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HISTORY; LITERATURE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LITERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749651731     PISSN: 10934510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.9.3.172     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education (New York: Appleton and Company, 1905 [1904]), 2 vols.
2. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1937);
3. Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic (New York: Pantheon Press, 1973 [1965]).
4. There are many works that could be cited that would trace this terrible history, but Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind. African-American History 1877-1930 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999) is an excellent place to start.
5. John Higham, Strangers in the Land. Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1924 (New Brunswick, CT: Rutgers University Press, 1956) is the classic study of this phenomenon.
6. Richard Louis Dugdale, "The Jukes", A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity (New York: Putnam, 1910 [1877]) passim.
7. Henry D. Shapiro, Appalachia On Our Mind: The Southern Mountaineers and Mountains in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1978);
8. Hamilton Cravens, The Triumph of Evolution. American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978).
9. Carl N. Degler, At Odds. Women and the Family from the Revolution to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980).
10. Steven Mintz, Huck's Raft. A History of American Childhood (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004), 133-213, is the latest synthesis and has many citations.
11. Superior coverage and leads, however, may be found in the many essays in Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner, Eds. American Childhood (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1985) especially 235-376, 415-488.
12. H. Cravens, The Triumph of Evolution, covers all of this in detail with ample bibliographical citations.
13. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 2.
14. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 3.
15. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 49.
16. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 202.
17. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, pp. 237-324.
18. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 325.
19. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, pp. 396, 400, quotes at pp. 355-356.
20. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 335.
21. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, pp. 338, 349, 385-386, 388.
22. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, pp. 434, 435, 439.
23. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 465.
24. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 1, p. 482.
25. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, p. 602.
26. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, pp. 565-566.
27. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, p. 614.
28. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, p. 627.
29. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, p. 645.
30. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, pp. 449-560.
31. On emergence in evolution, see, for example, Hamilton Cravens and John C. Burnham, "Psychology and Evolutionary Naturalism in American Thought, 1890-1940," American Quarterly, XXIII (December, 1971), 635-657, especially 640-642;
32. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, The Evolution of Institutional Economics. Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism (New York: Routledge, 2004), 99-120.
33. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, quotes on p. 63, 65-66, 69.
34. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, p. 301.
35. Hall, Adolescence, Vol. 2, p. 649.