Guide to the Edward Devereux Papers,
ca. 1936-1978

Collection Number: 23-13-3191

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
Damon Clark
Date completed:
June 18, 2002
EAD encoding:
Damon Clark, June 2002

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Edward Devereux papers, ca.1936-1978
Collection Number:
23-13-3191
Creator:
Edward Clifton Devereux.
Quantity:
3.4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, publications, course material, subject files.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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."


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Edward Devereux was Professor of Human Development and Human Studies at Cornell University from 1950-1978.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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."

SUBJECTS

Names:
Devereux, Edward Clifton.
Cornell University-- Faculty.
New York State College of Human Ecology-- Dept. of Human Dev. and Family Studies.
Tompkins County (N.Y.)Youth Court.

Titles:
Last Resort.

Subjects:
Juvenile Courts--New York (State)--Tompkins County.
Gambling--Social aspects--United States.
Horse racing--Betting--United States.
Children--Japan.
Child abuse--United States--Periodicals.
Children--Israel.
Children--Germany.
Children--England.
Child rearing.
Child development.
Children--United States.
(Little League) baseball.

Places:
Candor (N.Y.)


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Box 1 restricted to the permission of department chair.
Cite As:
Edward Devereux Papers #23-13-3191. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. AT & T Company
Box 1, Folders 1-5
Series II. Springdale - Community Study
Box 1, Folders 6-25
Series III. Germany - Study
Box 1, Folders 26-30
Series IV. Series IV. Israel - Study
Box 1, Folders 31-41
Series V. Hawaii - Study
Box 1, Folders 42-44
Series VI. Japan - Study
Box 1, Folders 45-54
Series VII. Course Material
Box 2, Folders 1-29
Series VIII. Seminars/Conferences
Box 2, Folders 30-42
Series IX. Publications
Box 3, Folders 1-57A
Series X. Subject Files: Children's Play
Box 3, Folders 58-67
Series XI. Subject Files: Gambling
Box 4, Folders 1-12
Series XII. Projects
Box 4, Folders 13-15
Series XIII. Biographical material and Correspondence
Box 4, Folders 16-20
Series XIV. Talks
Box 4, Folders 21-22


CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Drafts of various chapters for publication
Box 1 Folder 1
The Invisible Competitors of Social Research-drafts
Box 1 Folder 2
Interviews with AT & T employees, 1949
Box 1 Folder 3
Applied Social Sciences Research - Vol. 1, 1949
Box 1 Folder 4
Applied Social Sciences Research - Vol. 1- research and comments, 1949
Box 1 Folder 5
Code book, various cards
Box 1 Folder 6
Social sensitivity, 1953
Box 1 Folder 7
Neighborhood Participation Deviance, 1953
Box 1 Folder 8
Chapter 10-forms of community involvement and participation
Box 1 Folder 9
Community survey pre-test items, 1953
Box 1 Folder 10
Variables in survey
Box 1 Folder 11
Community problems analysis
Box 1 Folder 12
Neighborhood classifications, coding key
Box 1 Folder 13
Chapter 4- The People of Springdale: Background Characteristics
Box 1 Folder 14
Ecological material and chapter on Civic Awareness
Box 1 Folder 15
Organizations, summary of data, 1952-1953
Box 1 Folder 16
Cornell community survey
Box 1 Folder 17
Sample background data, 1955
Box 1 Folder 18
Cornell Research Program in Candor, 1952-1953
Box 1 Folder 19
Field Notes, 1951
Box 1 Folder 20
Field Notes, 1951
Box 1 Folder 21
Field Notes, 1951
Box 1 Folder 22
Staff document files- A long-range program of research on the detriments of constructive social behavior, 1952
Box 1 Folder 23
Staff document files - A long-range program of research on the detriments of constructive social behavior, 1952
Box 1 Folder 24
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. 1953
Box 1 Folder 25
Correspondence, 1958-1962
Box 1 Folder 26
Family Authority Structure and Child Behavior-key and remarks, 1960
Box 1 Folder 27
Questionnaires,
Box 1 Folder 28
Correspondence - Frankfurt, 1955-1957
Box 1 Folder 29
"Parental Behavior and Family Structure in West Germany" -results of analyses of variance for nine parent behavior factors, 1962
Box 1 Folder 30
Parent Behavior Instruments, 1970s
Box 1 Folder 31
Correspondence, 1971-1976
Box 1 Folder 32
Research proposal - Studies of Group Upbringing, 1969
Box 1 Folder 33
Research proposal - Cross-Cultural Studies of Child Rearing, 1967-1969
Box 1 Folder 34
Cross-Cultural Studies, 1971
Box 1 Folder 35
Research proposal - Family Structure and Personality Development, 1958, 1962 and 1963
Box 1 Folder 36
Research proposal - Cross-Cultural Studies of Socialization, 1962
Box 1 Folder 37
Research proposal - Cross-Cultural Studies of Family Behavior 1959
Box 1 Folder 38
Research Project - Sociological Studies of the Family, 1958
Box 1 Folder 39
Research Project - Changing Structure of the Rural Community with Implications for Rural Programming, 1955-1956
Box 1 Folder 40
Occupational Roles and Parent-Child Relationships, 1958-1961
Box 1 Folder 41
Honolulu - pilot study, 1971
Box 1 Folder 42
Honolulu-Semantic Differential
Box 1 Folder 43
Hawaii - pre-test forms
Box 1 Folder 44
Family Structure, Socialization Settings and Child Behavior Outcomes in Japan - code book, 1976
Box 1 Folder 45
Report and correspondence, 1972-1974
Box 1 Folder 46
Correspondence, prior to 1971
Box 1 Folder 47
Correspondence, since 1971
Box 1 Folder 48
Correspondence concerning travel arrangements, 1967-1971
Box 1 Folder 49
Expenses, 1972
Box 1 Folder 50
Pre-test and parent interviews
Box 1 Folder 51
Questionnaires
Box 1 Folder 52
Long form
Box 1 Folder 53
Student paper - A Trend of Parent Behavior and Family Authority Structure in Three Cultures - by Edward Gubman, 1974
Box 1 Folder 54
Various course material, 1960's and 1970's
Box 2 Folder 1
"Research Methods in Child Development and Family Relations" CDFR), 1950's-1970's
Box 2 Folder 2
"Child Development and Family Relations" 501-502, 1968
Box 2 Folder 3
"DFR and Human Development and Family Studies"(HDFS), 1955-77
Box 2 Folder 4
"Family and Society", 1958, 1960's and 1970's
Box 2 Folder 5
"The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective", 1970's
Box 2 Folder 6
"Family, Kinship and Society" - 543 and 564
Box 2 Folder 7
"Family Relationships and the Social Structure"
Box 2 Folder 8
"American Family"- talks, article, course material, 1960's and 1970's
Box 2 Folder 9
American Family-CDFR 406 and sample student paper, bibliography, 1959
Box 2 Folder 10
Family Life in the United States - some area studies in the role of the father in the family, 1965
Box 2 Folder 11
Experimental Methods - lectures, 1950's
Box 2 Folder 12
Jewish Family - Israeli Family, 1950
Box 2 Folder 13
Homan's theory, 1960's
Box 2 Folder 14
"Technology and the Social Values of Industrialism", 1970
Box 2 Folder 15
Studies of Marital Success, 1950's and 1960's
Box 2 Folder 16
Psychopathology, 1964-1973
Box 2 Folder 17
Old age retirement
Box 2 Folder 18
Dating and Courtship, 1950' and 1960's
Box 2 Folder 19
Assortative Mating and Intermarriage, 1950' and 1960's
Box 2 Folder 20
China - family systems, 1972
Box 2 Folder 21
Kinship systems - Ireland, French Canadian, 1942-1972
Box 2 Folder 22
Ecology project - with Bronfenbrenner and Cochran, 1977
Box 2 Folder 23
Course outline - Social Disorganization
Box 2 Folder 24
Class papers by Devereux Study of Harvard-Radcliffe students, 1938-1939 and 1955
Box 2 Folder 25
Sociology - Harvard-handwritten notes, 1940
Box 2 Folder 26
Sociology - participant observation guides
Box 2 Folder 27
Case studies in delinquency and crime- Douglas, 1941
Box 2 Folder 28
Znaniecki-method of sociology- notes
Box 2 Folder 29
Conferences participated in by Devereux, 1965, 1967, and 1972
Box 2 Folder 30
Seminar on Talcott Parsons, 1957-1959
Box 2 Folder 31
Seminar on Talcott Parsons, 1957-1959
Box 2 Folder 32
"Talcott Parsons' Group" Minutes Correspondence with Norb Wiley, 1936-1937, 1975
Box 2 Folder 33
American Civilization - conference at Princeton, 1947-1948
Box 2 Folder 34
The Role of the "Elite" in American Civilization- conference at Princeton, 1950-1951
Box 2 Folder 35
Development of Moral Sense in Children - symposium, 1972
Box 2 Folder 36
Research Perspectives in the Ecology of Human Development - conference at Cornell, 1977
Box 2 Folder 37
Papers presented at above HD conference, 1977
Box 2 Folder 38
Papers presented at HD conference, 1977
Box 2 Folder 39
Papers presented at HD conference, 1977
Box 2 Folder 40
Papers presented at HD conference, 1977
Box 2 Folder 41
Papers presented at HD conference, 1977
Box 2 Folder 42
Child Development - editorial, correspondence, revisions, etc., 1968-1970
Box 3 Folder 1
Psychological Ecology: A Critical Analysis and Appraisal - correspondence, 1977-1978
Box 3 Folder 2
On Children's Games: Adult Organized vs. Child-Organized - a guide to accompany Two Ball Games, 1977
Box 3 Folder 3
Backyard versus Little League Baseball: The Impoverishment of Children's Games, 1976
Box 3 Folder 4
Socialization Practices of Parents, Teachers and Peers in Israel Children of Immigrants from Eastern and Western Nations - by Devereux and others, 1976
Box 3 Folder 5
Socialization Practices of Parents, Teachers, and Peers in Israel: The Kibbutz versus the City- by Devereux and others, 1974
Box 3 Folder 6
A Protocol for Structural-Functional Analysis, 1974
Box 3 Folder 7
Models for Man, Value Systems and Intervention Strategies: A Sociological Critique of Wolpe and Jourand, 1974
Box 3 Folder 8
Adolescent Male Initiation Ceremonies: A Structured-Functional Analysis, 1973
Box 3 Folder 9
Structural-Functional Analysis: A Protocol Based on Works of Parsons, Merton, Kingsley, Davis, Malinowski and others, 1972
Box 3 Folder 10
Some Observations on the Changing Family and the Role of Education in the People's Republic of China, 1972
Box 3 Folder 11
Some Antecedents and Correlates of Differential Patterns of Response to pressures from Peers and Adults Among Israeli Kibbutz Children, 1972
Box 3 Folder 12
Social Contexts, Family Relationships and the Moral Development of Children, 1972
Box 3 Folder 13
The Physiology and Psychology of Sport - Eastern Association for Physical Education of College Women Conference, 1972
Box 3 Folder 14
How I Learned to Use a Lever, 1972
Box 3 Folder 15
Authority and Moral Development Among German and American Children: A Cross-National Pilot Experiment, 1972
Box 3 Folder 16
Some Reflections on Research Reporting in Psychology, 1971
Box 3 Folder 17
Backyard versus Little League Baseball: The Impoverishment of Children's Games, 1971
Box 3 Folder 18
Soziologie der Familie, 1970
Box 3 Folder 19
The Role of Peer-Group Experience in Moral Development, 1970
Box 3 Folder 20
Child-Rearing in England and the U.S.- A Cross-National Comparison -by Devereux and others, 1969
Box 3 Folder 21
Standards of Social Behavior Among School Children in Four Cultures, 1968
Box 3 Folder 22
Authority, Guilt and Conformity to Adult Standards Among German Children: A Pilot Experimental Study, 1966
Box 3 Folder 23
Socialization in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Comparative Study of England, Germany and the U.S., 1965
Box 3 Folder 24
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, 1965
Box 3 Folder 25
Families in East and East, 1965
Box 3 Folder 26
Adults and Peers as Sources of Conformity and Autonomy- by Devereux and others, 1965
Box 3 Folder 27
The Tompkins County Youth Court, 1964
Box 3 Folder 28
Pre-Adolescents- Why Is Each One Different? 1964
Box 3 Folder 29
A Brief Survey of the Family in Contemporary America, 1964
Box 3 Folder 30
Patterns of Parent Behavior in the U.S. and the Federal Republic of Germany: A Cross-National Comparison-by Devereux and others, 1963
Box 3 Folder 31
Mercurio- L'allevamento die figli in Germania e negli, 1963
Box 3 Folder 32
Family Authority and Child Behavior in W. Germany and the U.S. -Some Problems and Strategies in a Cross-National Validation Study, 1962
Box 3 Folder 33
Children of Democracy, 1962
Box 3 Folder 34
Child Rearing in America and Germany- A Cross-National Comparison, 1962
Box 3 Folder 35
Family Authority Structure and Adolescent Behavior, 1961
Box 3 Folder 36
Adolescents and Family Structure -address given at Leadership Training Conference, 1961
Box 3 Folder 37
Forms of Community Involvement and Participation - Springdale - Chapter 10, 1956
Box 3 Folder 38
Neighborhood and Community Participation - A study of the Social Ecology of a Rural Community - Springdale, 1956
Box 3 Folder 39
The World of the Adolescent, 1955
Box 3 Folder 40
Interdisciplinary Planning for Team Research on Constructive Community Behavior - the Springdale Project - Devereux & Bronfenbrenner, 1951
Box 3 Folder 41
Some Formal Characteristics of Rational and Non-rational Action, 1949
Box 3 Folder 42
Sociology and Labour Relations - lecture given at Univ. of Toronto, 1942
Box 3 Folder 43
The Place of Human Ecology in the Science of Criminology, 1940
Box 3 Folder 44
Some Reflections on the Methods and Theories of John Dollard's Caste and Class in a Southern Town, 1939
Box 3 Folder 45
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, 1971
Box 3 Folder 46
The Sociological Theory of Talcott Parsons: An Introductory Overview
Box 3 Folder 47
The Individual Delinquent of William Healy as a Study in Causal Analysis
Box 3 Folder 48
Occupational Roles and Parent-Child Relationships - research proposal - Bronfenbrenner and Devereux
Box 3 Folder 49
Research Proposals and correspondence concerning it, 1964-78
Box 3 Folder 50
Book Reviews - Influences on Parent Behavior; The Japanese Factory: Aspects of its Social Organization; The Kibbutz Experience, 1967, 1958, 1976
Box 3 Folder 51
Articles, 1963-1965
Box 3 Folder 52
Speech given to Home Economics Council-"Cross-Cultural Research on Family Structure and Personality Development" 1963
Box 3 Folder 53
Reviews, 1960's
Box 3 Folder 54
Poem
Box 3 Folder 55
Harold Feldman-publications, 1970's
Box 3 Folder 56
Newspaper clippings on spanking/discipline, 1960's & 1970's
Box 3 Folder 57
Gilbertsville Manuscript
Box 3 Folder 57A
The Last Resort - newsletter of the Committee to End Violence Against the Next Generation - Berkeley, CA. 1981-1994
Box 4 Folder
Little League Studies, 1970's
Box 3 Folder 58
Devereux papers on this topic, 1971
Box 3 Folder 59
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 60
"Two Ball Games" - film project - proposal -how the project developed, 1974 & 1975
Box 3 Folder 61
"Two Ball Games" - background material, press releases, articles, correspondence, 1976 & 1977
Box 3 Folder 62
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence, 1971-1972
Box 3 Folder 63
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence, 1973-1975
Box 3 Folder 64
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence, 1976
Box 3 Folder 65
"Two Ball Games" - correspondence, 1977-1978
Box 3 Folder 66
Children's Play Conference 1975
Box 3 Folder 67
Publications
Box 4 Folder 1
Racing-Gambling - catalogs and advertisements
Box 4 Folder 2
Draft of chapter on number players - comments by RK Merton
Box 4 Folder 3
Economic and Non-Economic Elements in Gambling: An Essay in the Field of Psychological and Institutional Economics
Box 4 Folder 4
The Ethical Status of Gambling in American Society
Box 4 Folder 5
Sample of field notes - interviews, 1939
Box 4 Folder 6
Papers presented at 2nd annual Conference on Gambling, 1975
Box 4 Folder 7
Gambling in Psychological and Sociological Perspective, 1966
Box 4 Folder 8
World Book Encyclopedia entry on Gambling, 1967
Box 4 Folder 9
Gambling and the Social Structure - Table of Contents, Abstract
Box 4 Folder 10
Correspondence concerning thesis, 1948-1949
Box 4 Folder 11
Encyclopedia of Social Sciences entry on Gambling, 1968
Box 4 Folder 12
Grant Project - Tompkins County Demonstration Project, 1964-1965
Box 4 Folder 13
Articles concerning project done in Windsor, CT. 1937
Box 4 Folder 14
Article about project done in Surrey, 1964
Box 4 Folder 15
Vita, Correspondence, Articles, 1967-1978
Box 4 Folder 16
Correspondence, 1975
Box 4 Folder 17
Correspondence, 1950's & 1960's
Box 4 Folder 18
Reflections on the draft, the energy crisis, and family life
Box 4 Folder 19
Vietnam War - packet and letters, 1972
Box 4 Folder 20
Gilbertsville Radio Talk, 1936
Box 4 Folder 21
Criminology- radio talk, notes, course outlines, 1936-1948
Box 4 Folder 22