SOC357H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quartile, Visible Minority, 26 Men
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Transition from youth to adulthood = turning point: completion of education. Type of education has significant effects on later life: protective effects of education: better education has an effect on having better health make a difference on what you do. Leaving school, getting married, having kids major events that occur during this turning point: age at which these things occur have changed over the years. If too many teens become pregnant and don"t complete school. Disrupts functional flow of a modern society: not following this order can have a disruptive effect on individual lives. If you do things out of order can make things harder. Median ages at transitions males by 5-year birth cohorts. World of work was constructed largely on the assumption of a male breadwinner. Medium more accurate representation: extreme numbers can distort the mean. 1916-1920: medium age of school completion =20 (1936-1940, end of great depression, and world war i.
