EDUC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Age Segregation, Baby Boom, Peer Pressure
30 Dec 2018
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Groups of people who are roughly the same age. Modernization has led to more age segregation. Schools (1850"s public schools; 1930"s high school for all) Origins of adolescent peer groups in contemporary society. Changes in the size of the youth population. Baby boom created an adolescent boom in the 1960s and early 1970s. Adolescents comprised over 10% of u. s population. Counter agrument - we need peer groups in modern society. Family has become less important political and economic institution. Modernization has created age groups and also made them absolutely necessary. Adolescents have come to play a valuable role in preparing one another for adulthood. Reward center of brain: value of being with friends. Sharp increases in the time spent with peers versus adults. Peer groups begin to function much more often without adult supervision. Adolescence marks the emergence of cliques and larger collective peers. Increasingly more contact with peers is with opposite-sex friends.
