Edward Devereux papers, 1936-1978.
Collection Number: 23-13-3191
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Edward Devereux papers, 1936-1978.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-13-3191
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, publications, course material and subject files pertaining
to Devereux's interest in the ways families are organized cross-culturally and historically
and how these variations affect child rearing, with reference to these subjects in
Japan, Germany, Israel and England. Also files on gambling, the juvenile courts in
Tompkins County, children's games, in particular Little League, and correspondence
concerning his documentary film "Two Ball Games."
Creator:
Devereux, Edward Clifton.
Quanitities:
3.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Edward Devereux was Professor of Human Development and Human Studies at Cornell University
from 1950-1978.
Edward Devereux was born in Long Island, New York in 1912. He received his A.B.
and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Harvard in 1940. After two years as a Sociology
Instructor at the University of Toronto, Devereux entered the U.S. Navy as a navigator
and executive officer on a fleet tanker until 1945. He was then appointed Assistant
Professor of Sociology at Princeton for five years, before joining the Cornell University
faculty as Associate Professor of Child Development and Family Studies in 1950, serving
as Department Chair from 1966-1970.
Includes correspondence, publications, course material and subject files pertaining
to Devereux's interest in the ways families are organized cross-culturally and historically
and how these variations affect child rearing, with reference to these subjects in
Japan, Germany, Israel and England. Also files on gambling, the juvenile courts in
Tompkins County, children's games, in particular Little League, and correspondence
concerning his documentary film "Two Ball Games."
A DVD of the two copies of the film "Two Ball Games" can be found in collection #21-36-2566,
box 24
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Edward Devereux papers #23-13-3191. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Access to Box 1, folders 20-22 restricted until 2026
Access to Box 1, folder 51 restricted until 2046 at which time the restrictions will
be reevaluated.
See also collections #23-2-2817 and #47-10-3394 for additional biographical information.
Names:
Devereux, Edward Clifton.
Tompkins County (N.Y.). Youth Court
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
New York State College of Human Ecology. Department of Human Development and Family
Studies
Places:
Candor (N.Y.)
Subjects:
(Little League) baseball.
Children -- United States.
Child development.
Child rearing.
Children -- England.
Children -- Germany.
Children -- Israel.
Child abuse -- United States -- Periodicals.
Children -- Japan.
Horse racing -- Betting -- United States.
Gambling -- Social aspects -- United States.
Juvenile courts -- New York (State) -- Tompkins County.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. AT&T Company - Study
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Drafts of various chapters for publication
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
The Invisible Competitors of Social Research drafts
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Interviews with AT&T Company employees
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1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Applied Social Sciences Research - Vol. 1
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1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Applied Social Sciences Research - Vol. 1- research and comments
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1949 |
Series II. Springdale - Community Study
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Code book, various cards
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Social sensitivity
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Neighborhood Participation Deviance
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Chapter 10-forms of community involvement and participation
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Community survey pre-test items
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1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Variables in survey
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Community problems analysis
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Neighborhood classifications, coding key
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Chapter 4- The People of Springdale: Background Characteristics
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Ecological material and chapter on Civic Awareness
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Organizations, summary of data
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1952-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Cornell community survey
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Sample background data
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1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Cornell Research Program in Candor
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1952-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Field Notes
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1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Field Notes
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1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Field Notes
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1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Staff document files- A long-range program of research on the detriments of constructive
social behavior
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Staff document files - A long-range program of research on the detriments of constructive
social behavior
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1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Papers by Carlfred Broderick - Nature and Role of Informal Family Groups, Social Integration
in Springdale and Urban Conjugal Family and the Social Mechanisms which Support and
Stabilize It
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1953 |
Series III. Germany - Study
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence
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1958-1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Family Authority Structure and Child Behavior-key and remarks
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1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Questionnaires
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence - Frankfurt
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1955-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
"Parental Behavior and Family Structure in West Germany" -results of analyses of variance
for nine parent behavior factors
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1962 |
Series IV. Israel - Study
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Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Parent Behavior Instruments
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1970-1979 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence
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1971-1976 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Research proposal - Studies of Group Upbringing
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1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Research proposal - Cross-Cultural Studies of Child Rearing
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1967-1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Cross-Cultural Studies
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1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Research proposal - Family Structure and Personality Development
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1958, 1962, 1963 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Research proposal - Cross-Cultural Studies of Socialization
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1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Research proposal - Cross-Cultural Studies of Family Behavior
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1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Research project - Sociological Studies of the Family
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Research project - Changing Structure of the Rural Community with Implications for
Rural Programming
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1955-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Occupational Roles and Parent-Child Relationships
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1958-1961 |
Series V. Hawaii - Study
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Honolulu - pilot study
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1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Honolulu-Semantic Differential
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Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Hawaii - pre-test forms
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Series VI. Japan - Study
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Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Family Structure, Socialization Settings and Child Behavior Outcomes in Japan - code
book
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1976 |
Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Report and correspondence
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1972-1974 |
Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Correspondence
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1960-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Correspondence
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1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Correspondence concerning travel arrangements
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1967-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Expenses
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1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Pre-test and parent interviews
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Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Questionnaires
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Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Long form
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Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Student paper - A Trend of Parent Behavior and Family Authority Structure in Three
Cultures - by Edward Gubman
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1974 |
Series VII. Course material
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Various course material
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1960-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
"Research Methods in Child Development and Family Relations" CDFR)
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1950-1970 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
"Child Development and Family Relations" 501-502
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1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
"DFR and Human Development and Family Studies"(HDFS)
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1955-1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
"Family and Society"
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1958, 1960-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
"The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective"
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1970-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
"Family, Kinship and Society" - 543 and 564
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
"Family Relationships and the Social Structure"
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
"American Family"- talks, article, course material
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1960-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
American Family-CDFR 406 and sample student paper, bibliography
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1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Family Life in the United States - some area studies in the role of the father in
the family
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1965 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Experimental Methods - lectures
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1950-1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Jewish Family - Israeli Family
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1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Homan's theory
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1960-1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
"Technology and the Social Values of Industrialism"
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1970 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Studies of Marital Success
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1950-1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Psychopathology
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1964-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Old age retirement
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Dating and Courtship
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1950-1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Assortative Mating and Intermarriage
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1950-1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
China - family systems
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1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Kinship systems - Ireland, French Canadian
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1942-1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Ecology project - with Bronfenbrenner and Cochran
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1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Course outline - Social Disorganization
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Class papers by Devereux Study of Harvard-Radcliffe students
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1938-1939, 1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Sociology - Harvard-handwritten notes
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1940 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Sociology - participant observation guides
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Case studies in delinquency and crime- Douglas
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1941 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Znaniecki-method of sociology- notes
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Series VIII. Seminars/Conferences
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Conferences participated in by Devereux
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1965, 1967, 1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Seminar on Talcott Parsons
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1957-1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Seminar on Talcott Parsons
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1957-1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
"Talcott Parsons' Group" Minutes Correspondence with Norb Wiley
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1936-1937, 1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
American Civilization - conference at Princeton
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1947-1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
The Role of the "Elite" in American Civilization- conference at Princeton
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1950-1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Development of Moral Sense in Children - symposium
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1972 |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Research Perspectives in the Ecology of Human Development - conference at Cornell
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1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Papers presented at above Human Development conference
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1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Papers presented at Human Development conference
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1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Papers presented at Human Development conference
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1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Papers presented at Human Development conference
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1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 42 |
Papers presented at Human Development conference
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1977 |
Series IX. Publications
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Child Development - editorial, correspondence, revisions
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1968-1970 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Psychological Ecology: A Critical Analysis and Appraisal - correspondence
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1977-1978 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
On Children's Games: Adult Organized vs. Child-Organized - a guide to accompany Two
Ball Games
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1977 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Backyard versus Little League Baseball: The Impoverishment of Children's Games
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1976 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Socialization Practices of Parents, Teachers and Peers in Israel Children of Immigrants
from Eastern and Western Nations - by Devereux and others
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1976 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Socialization Practices of Parents, Teachers, and Peers in Israel: The Kibbutz versus
the City- by Devereux and others
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1974 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
A Protocol for Structural-Functional Analysis
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1974 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Models for Man, Value Systems and Intervention Strategies: A Sociological Critique
of Wolpe and Jourand
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1974 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Adolescent Male Initiation Ceremonies: A Structured-Functional Analysis
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1973 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Structural-Functional Analysis: A Protocol Based on Works of Parsons, Merton, Kingsley,
Davis, Malinowski and others
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Some Observations on the Changing Family and the Role of Education in the People's
Republic of China
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Some Antecedents and Correlates of Differential Patterns of Response to pressures
from Peers and Adults Among Israeli Kibbutz Children
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Social Contexts, Family Relationships and the Moral Development of Children
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
The Physiology and Psychology of Sport - Eastern Association for Physical Education
of College Women Conference
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
How I Learned to Use a Lever
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Authority and Moral Development Among German and American Children: A Cross-National
Pilot Experiment
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1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Some Reflections on Research Reporting in Psychology
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1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Backyard versus Little League Baseball: The Impoverishment of Children's Games
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1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Soziologie der Familie
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1970 |
Box 3 | Folder 20 |
The Role of Peer-Group Experience in Moral Development
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1970 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Child-Rearing in England and the U.S.- A Cross-National Comparison -by Devereux and
others
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1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Standards of Social Behavior Among School Children in Four Cultures
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1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Authority, Guilt and Conformity to Adult Standards Among German Children: A Pilot
Experimental Study
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1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Socialization in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Comparative Study of England, Germany
and the U.S.
|
1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Family Relationships and the Formation of the Ability to Build Up Human and Social
Relationships and The Role of the Family in Youth Education-UNESCO talk
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Families in East and East
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Adults and Peers as Sources of Conformity and Autonomy- by Devereux and others
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1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
The Tompkins County Youth Court
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Pre-Adolescents- Why Is Each One Different?
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
A Brief Survey of the Family in Contemporary America
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1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Patterns of Parent Behavior in the U.S. and the Federal Republic of Germany: A Cross-National
Comparison-by Devereux and others
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1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Mercurio- L'allevamento die figli in Germania e negli
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1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Family Authority and Child Behavior in West Germany and the U.S. -Some Problems and
Strategies in a Cross-National Validation Study
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1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Children of Democracy
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1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Child Rearing in America and Germany- A Cross-National Comparison
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1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Family Authority Structure and Adolescent Behavior
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1961 |
Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Adolescents and Family Structure -address given at Leadership Training Conference
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1961 |
Box 3 | Folder 38 |
Forms of Community Involvement and Participation - Springdale - Chapter 10
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1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 39 |
Neighborhood and Community Participation - A study of the Social Ecology of a Rural
Community - Springdale
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1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 40 |
The World of the Adolescent
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1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 41 |
Interdisciplinary Planning for Team Research on Constructive Community Behavior -
the Springdale Project - Devereux and Bronfenbrenner
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1951 |
Box 3 | Folder 42 |
Some Formal Characteristics of Rational and Non-rational Action
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1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 43 |
Sociology and Labour Relations - lecture given at University of Toronto
|
1942 |
Box 3 | Folder 44 |
The Place of Human Ecology in the Science of Criminology
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1940 |
Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Some Reflections on the Methods and Theories of John Dollard's Caste and Class in
a Southern Town
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1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 46 |
Standards of Social Behavior Among School Children in Four Cultures - by Devereux
Technical Report on a Measure of Anxiety and Self-Esteem; Changes in Parental Behavior
Reported by Children in W. Germany and the U.S. - by Robert Rodgers
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1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 47 |
The Sociological Theory of Talcott Parsons: An Introductory Overview
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Box 3 | Folder 48 |
The Individual Delinquent of William Healy as a Study in Causal Analysis
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Box 3 | Folder 49 |
Occupational Roles and Parent-Child Relationships - research proposal - Bronfenbrenner
and Devereux
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Box 3 | Folder 50 |
Research Proposals and correspondence
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1964-1978 |
Box 3 | Folder 51 |
Book Reviews - Influences on Parent Behavior; The Japanese Factory: Aspects of its
Social Organization; The Kibbutz Experience
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1967, 1958, 1976 |
Box 3 | Folder 52 |
Articles
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1963-1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 53 |
Speech given to Home Economics Council-"Cross-Cultural Research on Family Structure
and Personality Development"
|
1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 54 |
Reviews
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1960-1969 |
Box 3 | Folder 55 |
Poem
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Box 3 | Folder 56 |
Harold Feldman-publications
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1970-1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 57 |
Newspaper clippings on spanking/discipline
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1960-1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 57A |
Gilbertsville manuscript
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Box 4 | Folder 23-24 |
The Last Resort - newsletter of the Committee to End Violence Against the Next Generation
- Berkeley, CA.
|
1981-1994 |
Series X. Subject Files: Children's Play
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Box 3 | Folder 58 |
Little League Studies
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1970-1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 59 |
Devereux papers on this topic
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1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 60 |
A response to "Two Ball Games" - by Stephen Mosher from SUNY Brockport and Play, Games
and Sport in Human Development by Douglas Kleiber from Cornell
|
1978 |
Box 3 | Folder 61 |
"Two Ball Games" - film project - proposal -how the project developed
|
1974, 1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 62 |
"Two Ball Games" - background material, press releases, articles, correspondence
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1976, 1977 |
Box 3 | Folder 63 |
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence
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1971-1972 |
Box 3 | Folder 64 |
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence
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1973-1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 65 |
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence
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1976 |
Box 3 | Folder 66 |
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence
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1977-1978 |
Box 3 | Folder 67 |
Children's Play Conference
|
1975 |
Series XI. Subject Files: Gambling
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Publications
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Racing-Gambling - catalogs and advertisements
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Draft of chapter on number players - comments by RK Merton
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Economic and Non-Economic Elements in Gambling: An Essay in the Field of Psychological
and Institutional Economics
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
The Ethical Status of Gambling in American Society
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Sample of field notes - interviews
|
1939 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Papers presented at 2nd annual Conference on Gambling
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1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Gambling in Psychological and Sociological Perspective
|
1966 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
World Book Encyclopedia entry on Gambling
|
1967 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Gambling and the Social Structure - Table of Contents, Abstract
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence concerning thesis
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1948-1949 |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Encyclopedia of Social Sciences entry on Gambling
|
1968 |
Series XII. Projects
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Grant Project - Tompkins County Demonstration Project
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1964-1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Articles concerning project done in Windsor, CT.
|
1937 |
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Article about project done in Surrey
|
1964 |
Series XIII. Biographical material and Correspondence
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Vita, Correspondence, Articles
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1967-1978 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
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1970-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence
|
1950-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Reflections on the draft, the energy crisis, and family life
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Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Vietnam War - packet and letters
|
1972 |
Series XIV. Talks and Sound Recordings
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Gilbertsville radio talk
|
1936 |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Criminology - radio talk, notes, course outlines
|
1936-1948 |
SR-1120 |
"Permisiveness vs. Control" - sound recording (2 copies)
|
1964 |