Mark Shaffer 2/18/00 Erik Erikson Erik Erikson is a Freudian ego-psychologist with a psychosocial theory. Erikson took Freud's theory of development and added a sociological aspect, plus three adult stages. Erikson's work is based on five separate ideas: People have the same basic needs; The d...

The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although scholars in his largely ignored him own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socia...

Rather than purely focusing on a child's sexual or neurological stages of development, like Freud and Piaget, Erik Erikson attempted to present a more holistic model for analyzing childhood development ("Piaget's Stages of Social-Emotional Development In Children and Teenagers,"1...