TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chudacoff,Howard P.
TI  - How Old Are You?: Age Consciousness in American Culture 
SN  - 9780691221267
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Calahan, Daniel
KW  - Danzinger, Sheldon
KW  - Eddy, Daniel
KW  - Eliot, Charles W
KW  - Forty Plus clubs
KW  - Freud, Sigmund
KW  - Gerontological Society
KW  - Hart, William Bruce
KW  - Kett, Joseph
KW  - Lee, Agnes
KW  - Lionberger, Isaac
KW  - Medicare
KW  - Morris, Desmond
KW  - National Council of Senior Citizens
KW  - Newcomb, Harvey
KW  - Older Americans Act of 1965
KW  - Puritans
KW  - Quetelet, Adolphe
KW  - Shakespeare, William
KW  - Sunday schools
KW  - Titcomb, Timothy
KW  - Tucker, Sophie
KW  - Vietnam War
KW  - Willard, Frances
KW  - Znaniecki, Florian
KW  - advice literature
KW  - ageism
KW  - autograph books
KW  - baby boom
KW  - birthrates
KW  - bureaucratization
KW  - child development
KW  - colleges and universities
KW  - commercialized leisure
KW  - discrimination, age
KW  - games and play
KW  - infant schools
KW  - jukeboxes
KW  - juvenile courts
KW  - middle age
KW  - pediatrics
KW  - peer groups
KW  - religion
KW  - retirement communities
KW  - rural communities
KW  - social security
KW  - television
KW  - vaudeville
KW  - voting age
KW  - work and workplace
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. BLURRED AGE DISTINCTIONS: AMERICAN SOCIETY BEFORE 1850 --; CHAPTER 2. ORIGINS OF AGE GRADING: EDUCATION AND MEDICINE --; CHAPTER 3. AGE NORMS AND SCHEDULING: THE 1890S --; CHAPTER 4. INTENSIFICATION OF AGE NORMS: 1900-1920 --; CHAPTER 5. EMERGENCE OF A PEER SOCIETY --; CHAPTER 6. ACT YOUR AGE: THE CULTURE OF AGE, 1900-1935 --; CHAPTER 7. AGE CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC --; CHAPTER 8. CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN THE RECENT PAST --; CONCLUSION --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Most Americans take it for granted that a thirteen-year-old in the fifth grade is "behind schedule," that "teenagers who marry "too early" are in for trouble, and that a seventy-five-year-old will be pleased at being told, "You look young for your age." Did an awareness of age always dominate American life? Howard Chudacoff reveals that our intense age consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, he explores a wide range of topics, including demographic change, the development of pediatrics and psychological testing, and popular music from the early 1800s until now. "Throughout our lifetimes American society has been age-conscious. But this has not always been the case. Until the mid-nineteenth century, Americans showed little concern with age. The one-room schoolhouse was filled with students of varied ages, and children worked alongside adults. [This is] a lively picture of the development of age consciousness in urban middle-class culture." --Robert H. Binstock, The New York Times Book Review "A fresh perspective on a century of social and cultural development."--Michael R. Dahlin, American Historical Review
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