PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Age Segregation, Prosocial Behavior, Social Promotion

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Individuals learn from peers; try new things, skills, ideas and roles: adolescence will spend 2-4 times more times than with their family: characteristics of the adolescence time period, source of happiness from peers. Age segregation- the social custom of grouping people by their chronological age: this was not prevalent till school attendance became universal. Social promotion- feeding children through the school system with those they started with. You finish school with the same people you started with: age segregation is also common in sports team, girl and boy scouts etc. Influence to culture in terms of how older and younger people communicate. Margret mead: the pace of change within culture: post figurative: there is slow change for social and technological change and so elders teach children. Because nothing changes much over time, the knowledge held by the elders is still important to youth.

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