Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1972 - 6/30/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


Youth and Vocation in Ante-Bellum America

FAIN: FB-11419-72

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Donald M. Scott (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To study the problem of vocation as young men of ante-bellum America confronted it. It is concerned with how they prepared for and were inducted into adult pursuits, with the anxieties and conflicing values and desires they experienced, and how they confronted problems of identity and choice.