Cornell University 1979-1984 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.

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.

in sociology and psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1961.