简介

I am interested in problems in the broader history and theory of childhood. In particular, I am interested in the general analysis of how economic, technology, and other societal conditions affect the practices and personalities children and adults, and the general nature of childhood; in how much can be called normal development, as opposed to contingent development. I am also interested in the effects of the very great variability reported by historians and anthropologists, upon the basic nature of theory in the field of development. As a more concrete interest, I am interested in the nature of conceptual categories, and in particular in the degree of individual variation and disorganization these may show in individuals, as well as in the concepts used in a field like developmental psychology itself.