PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Margaret Mead, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Individualism
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Cultures differ in what adolescents are allowed, required, believe, & patterns in daily life. Puberty, biologically speaking, is universal but all other aspects are culturally defined. Ancient greece; plato & aristotle: capacity for reason, great time to teach (14-21) Adolescence ends at 18 now bc of legal and structural changes (early ideas were 20s) 1500-1890: life-cycle service - children left home as teens, moved in home of master . Age of adolescence 1890-1920: child labor laws, required to complete secondary school. G. stanley hall: first scientific study of adolescence, first textbook, storm and stress . Biologically speaking, all adolescents are stressed, moody, risky behavior. Debunked: claim all adolescents and purely biological is false. Adolescence begins earlier (10 not 14) and ends earlier (18 not 24) than 19th c. ideas. Initial signs of puberty is earlier in life; age 18 is structurally defined in today"s time. ~ age 18-25; since we end adolescence at 18, still another period before adulthood.
