| Glen Elder | |
| Birth Name: | Glen Holl Elder, Jr. |
| Birth Date: | 28 February 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Known For: | Life course theory |
| Discipline: | Sociologist |
| Education: | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD, 1961 |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Berkeley 1962-1967Cornell University 1979-1984University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1968-1977, 1984-present |
| Website: | http://elder.web.unc.edu/ |
Glen Holl Elder, Jr. (born 28 February 1934) is an American sociologist who is the Howard W. Odum Research Professor of Sociology (emeritus), a research professor of Psychology and a current professor at the Carolina Population Center[1] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in social psychology, sociology, demographics and life course research. Elder's major work was Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience, in 1974.[2] The American Academy of Arts and Sciences admitted Glen H. Elder in 1988.[3] In 1993, he was honored with the Cooley-Mead Award by the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association.[4] Elder was given honorary doctorates by the University of Bremen in 1999,[5] by the Pennsylvania State University in 2003[6] and by the Ohio State University in 2005.[7]
Elder was born on February 28, 1934, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a bachelor’s of science from Pennsylvania State University, University Park in 1957, his Master's from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and a PhD. in sociology and psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1961.[8]