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  • Front Cover; Life-Span Developmental Psychology: Historical and Generational Effects; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1. Historical Time and Cohort Effects; INTRODUCTION; HISTORICAL TIME AND COHORT EFFECTS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL DATA; THE CONCEPTS OF COHORT AND PERIOD REVISITED; HOW DO WE MEASURE HISTORICAL TIME?; IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF AGE, COHORT, AND PERIOD EFFECTS; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. Dimensions of Historical Constancy and Change; INTRODUCTION; DIMENSIONS OF LIFE EVENTS; THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE
  • METHODS OF STUDYCONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. The Individual as Consumer and Producer of Historical Change; INTRODUCTION; THE OBSERVER OUTSIDE THE OBSERVED SYSTEM; THE OBSERVER IS PART OF THE SYSTEM; THE OBSERVED INDIVIDUAL'S REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY; EVALUATING OUR DISCIPLINE AGAINST THE SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIPS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. Simulation of Cultural Change by Cross-Cultural Research: Some Metamethodological Considerations; INTRODUCTION; CROSS-CULTURAL SIMULATION OF SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE WITHIN LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 5. Culture, Language, and Mature RationalityINTRODUCTION; THE RELATIVIZATION OF COGNITIVE MATURITY; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CRISIS OF THE PERSONAL; THE REINTEGRATION OF INDIVIDUALITY IN MATURITY; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. Social Change, World Views, and Cohort Succession: The United States in the 1980s; INTRODUCTION; GENERATIONAL DISCONTINUITIES IN TUNISIA; THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF INDUSTRIALISM; A NEW SENSE OF LIMITS; DISTRUST OF INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP; SKEPTICISM ABOUT TECHNOLOGY; GENERATIONAL SHIFTS IN WORLD VIEWS; THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM; REFERENCES
  • CHAPTER 7. Love, War, and the Life Cycle of the FamilyINTRODUCTION; THE CENTRAL EUROPEANS; THE TURKS; THE PERSIANS; THE NORTH AFRICANS; THE MOSLEM ARABS; THE LESSONS OF HISTORY; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. Hardship in Lives: Depression Influences from the 1930s to Old Age in Postwar America; INTRODUCTION; LINKING ECONOMIC EVENTS AND HEALTH; DEPRESSION ADVERSITY IN THE LATER YEARS; HARD TIMES AND HEALTH IN THE 1930S; OVERVIEW; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. Fatherhood: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; INTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS; IN SEARCH OF A BASELINE
  • A PORTRAIT OF TRADITIONAL FAMILIESUNPLANNED AND PLANNED CHANGE: EFFECTS ON FATHERING; UNPLANNED CHANGES IN FATHERING; CULTURAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES; EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN FATHERING ON CHILDREN AND PARENTS; CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE TRENDS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10. Grandparenthood in Transition; INTRODUCTION; POSITION OF THE AGED IN TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES; CHANGING FAMILY STRUCTURE; GRANDPARENTHOOD; BACKGROUND; METHODOLOGY; FINDINGS AND RESULTS; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Author Index; Subject Index