How long does it take to read Childhood and Society?
Childhood and Society by Erik H. Erikson takes about 8 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1950. 438 pages, about 120,450 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individual's growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and cited, his works have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Combining the insights of clinical psychoanalysis with a new approach to cultural anthropology, Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as "a rare and living combination of European and American thought in the human sciences" (Margaret Mead, The American Scholar). Translated into numerous foreign languages, it has gone on to become a classic in the study of the social significance of childhood. - Back cover.
Subjects: Case studies, Child development, Child psychology, Childhood, Identity (Psychology), Identity (Psychology) in children
