HREQ 1800 Lecture 13: Childhood and Society Lecture 13
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Adolescences is a time of trial and uncertainty: experience anxiety, humiliation, and mood swings, maturing at an earlier age, may experience ego identity and role diffusion. Ego identity: is formed when persons develop a firm sense of who they are and what they stand for. Role diffusion: occurs when youths spread themselves too thin, experience, personal uncertainty, and place themselves at the mercy of leaders who promise to give them a sense of identity they cannot develop for themselves. Side note: asch s study of conformity: lines of different length. Children create their identities through these heroes. i. e. high school musical ended leaving children with a loss of identity. *essay: focus on one law or regulation and build from there. This might start you thinking about the cultural impact of media, consumerism etc on children and the future types of adults they are becoming.