FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Psychology, American Majority, Ontogeny

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Carol- Anne Hendry

Document Summary

12pt times new roman, double space, 1-inch margins. Video: ted talk: the danger of a single story chimamanda ngozi adichie. Began to write about things she recognized rather than british foreign" books that were recognized. Single story of the roommate having one idea of what an african woman would be like: felt pitied as being an african, all the idea of africa that we are taught by western literature. Problem with stereotypes is not that they are not true they give story to each person without their individual stories (they are incomplete: robs people of dignity, makes recognizing an equal human difficult. Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture? margaret mead. Academic & anthropologist: wrote about adolescence, most famous work: coming of age in samoa (1928) Went to samoa to seek an answer to that question was a huge deal during that time. Shared that there is a huge variation between adolescent samoans & western adolescents.