FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Dynamics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Social dynamics: change can be measured across points in time, identity and change are central to developing a dynamic theory, does not look at unique events or changes. Stage: individuals" lives are experienced as events. E. g birth, graduation, wedding, death: actual date is not important. The event contains the information about our lives. Stage transitions: every person and organization experience transitions, many contain intense adjustment which leads to high stress. E. g the birth of a child, planning a wedding: age-graded norms, informal norms. Graduating high school: out of sequence. Pathways: at any point, always possibility of a stage transition, transition depended on. How long you have been in that stage. The social norms favoring one type of transition over another: individual think their pathway is their choice, but historical and random factors arise to change or modify our pathways. Yellow highlight on midterm dark blue title.