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Adolescence, teenager and youth are distinct yet overlapping concepts. There are different perspectives explaining adolescence, teenager and youth. Socio-cultural theorists tend to see these as context-specific, social concepts. Adolescence: early 20th century: first used to refer to young people around 10-18. Concerns about future: of nation, young people thought about as representing the future. Interested in studying populations particularly in students attending schooling: stanley g. hall: prominent psychologist. Published book called adolescence and was a key way to remember young people. Embedded in the individual: talked about adolescence not as a group of people. Problem/difficult: source of the problem was not seen socially as much as it was seen in the individual. Sexuality as concern: he was concerned about teens having sexual urges and advocated the need to suppress these urges and sublimate them into studies. There were also about masculinity, his work focused a lot on boys and the beginnings of the boy scouts movement.

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