SOC 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anomie, Individualism, Mass Media
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3: berger and hackett: age-grading i. strict age categories that say what is appropriate for certain age groups. Kids in elementary school should act like this. : coleman: age-grouping i. grouping people by their age. institutions, like middle school, high school, college. Leisure: individualism vs. conformity, sebald: satus discontunuities between child and adult statuses, sebald: anomie in american life, anomie: a lack of norms; not having norms. 11. coleman, sebald: nature of the educational system and educational institutions: schools that are large and broad. i. ii. no real concentration. comprehensive. Parents rely on the school system to take care and raise their children. The education system greatly impacts the youth, and how they evolve. 13. sebald: seperation of the location of work from the domicile: as the us became more industrialized, more people went to work outside ofthe home, most adolescents know little about their parents work.