Psychology 2061A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Margaret Mead, Social Forces, Social Fact

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2061A/B
• Professor: Kyle Cameron

Document Summary

What is youth: psychologists prefer terms such as adolescence, more recently emerging adulthood , full rage of youth period is 14 to 30, depending on the society. Argued that you can view cultures in terms of their inter generational relations: post gurature. Is the youth period universal: no: puberty is universal, but the transition to adulthood is highly variable in terms of gaining full cultural membership. Film: the invention of the adolescent: age of anxiety - growing concern for children. Everyone looked the same, artists barely distinguished between people (children looked like little adults, self-reliant) Adults, adolescents, and children were always together - everyone took part in the religious festivals, the community celebrations, any gathering brought together young and old. Adolescents had the same responsibility as adults - no one worried about the innocence" of children. As soon as a child was able, they would work, usually at age 7.