Rediscovering the Adolescent: A Study of Personality Development in Adolescent Boys (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple
Synopsis
CHAPTER I THE ADOLESCENT EXPANDS HIS vVORLD WE START to unfold our findings about the adolescent boy by presenting in the first chapter many facts that are commonplace to the discerning observer. Perhaps you say what a strange way to begin a book that promises to reveal brand new-even startling-factsl To which we might reply that the very familiarity of the facts will be a convincing witness of their accuracy. But this attitude would be dangerous to take in the name of science. For certainly some, if not many, of the 'findings we uncovered in our search may not be blessed with the support of common sense or popular opinion, and would, if we applied this false criterion of accuracy, be discredited. So we must answer that science is just as much interested in turning existing opinion into accredited fact as in thrusting it into the limbo of discredited lore. The reader is now warned that he must not expect to be confronted continually in these pages with facts and conc
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; FOREWORD} Hugh S Hartshorne; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: SCIENCE IN SEARCH OF THE ADOLESCENT; I THE ADOLESCENT EXPANDS HIS WORLD; II THE PLAY PURSUITS OF THE ADOLESCENT; III ADOLESCENT PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR; IV THE ADOLESCENT CHOOSES FRIENDS; V THE ADOLESCENT SEEKS STATUS: I; VI THE ADOLESCENT SEEKS STATUS: II; VII ADOLESCENT EMANCIPATION FROM PARENTS; VIII MORAL AND RELIGIOUS THINKING IN ADOLESCENCE; IX THE ADOLESCENT FORMS GROUPS: I; X THE ADOLESCENT FORMS GROUPS: II; XI PUBERTY: AT WHAT AGE AND WHY?; XII PUBESCENCE AND PHYSICAL GROWTH; XIII TOWARD AN U NDERST ANDING OF THE ADOLESCENT; INDEX;
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