PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stereotype, Psych
16 Dec 2020
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The twentieth and twenty-first centuries: stanley hall"s storm-and-stress view is attributed with the beginnings of the scientific study of adolescence, adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings. Margaret mead"s sociocultural view: the basic nature of adolescence is not biological, but rather sociocultural. In cultures that provide a smooth, gradual transition from childhood to adulthood, she found little storm and stress: criticisms over biased and error-prone findings cause this to be a controversial view. In the 1960s to 1970s adolescents was shaped anew by ethnic and racial conflict, antiwar protests, and the feminist movement. Issues with low academic performance, college graduation rates, alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, and obesity. Adolescents who grow up in poverty represent a special concern. In 2015, 19. 7% of u. s. children and adolescents were living in families below the poverty line, a figure much higher than in other industrialized nations: for example, canada has a child and adolescent poverty rate of.
