| Abstrakt: |
The membership of the U.S. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) has long been drawn from such diverse fields as psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, nursing, pediatrics, anatomy, nutrition, home economics, and social work-but not history. The society gained its first historian member in 1976 and its second in 1983. Until recent decades developmentalists have shown little interest in temporal perspectives. Until then, they had few examples from historians of the effect that past environments had on children's lives to stimulate their interest. In contrast, they have long seen the value of cross-cultural perspectives, perhaps because U.S. anthropologists such as Margaret Mead and U.S. sociologists such as Robert and Helen Lynd were publishing their own pioneering studies on children and family life during the very period in which the field of child development was being established. Anthropologists and sociologists have been active in SRCD from the beginning. |
