PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: High School Dropouts, Routine Activity Theory, Prime Time

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: Daniel Beliciu

Document Summary

Spends more time in leisure activities, alone, with friends/peers. Spend less than 5 hours per week on homework. Students in asian countries spend 4-5 hours per day on homework. Originates from compulsory schooling and post world war 2 affluence. The rise and fall of the student worker. Before 1925, most entered workforce by 15 years of age. Compulsory education laws and child labor laws restricted adolescents" work opportunities. There has been growth of retail and service sectors of economy for short work shifts and. In 1940, only about 3% of high school students worked during the school year low wages: teenagers were called upon to fill these positions. Dramatic increase in part-time jobs during the 1970"s. There has been a decrease in adolescents student employees in the last 15 years. In the past two decades, educational reformers called for tougher standards in high schools. During the recession, unemployed adults were hired over teenagers.