PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Old Age, Sharpening, Developmental Psychology
2 Mar 2017
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In 1916, g. stanley hall, the father of adolescence research, published adolescence. Up until the 1950s, less than 5% of research on adolescence included cultural or cross- cultural elements. The industrialization lead to the shift of how we understand adolescence and the expectations of them. Prior to the industrialization, it was you were a child, then an adult; there was no in-between phase. That is the case in industrialized and non-industrialized nations. Most non-industrialized societies around the world hold rites of passage ceremonies. Themes of initiation ceremonies are typically consistent with the eventual adult responsibilities in the various societies: what we expect of the adolescent and their responsibilities vary. Sometimes rituals tend to be painful: genital operations. Controversy around this issue: extensive tattooing. Sign of membership (gang members, criminals, soldiers in war) Receive first tattoo when they reach puberty. Very painful, can have fevers for days afterwards, very swollen: lip plates but they still do it.
