HDE 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyberbullying, Attribution Bias, Iatrogenesis
25 Sep 2016
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Chapter 5: peers: adolescent peer groups, the origins of adolescent peer groups in contemporary society. 14 million school-aged youngsters (~5% of the us population) come home from school to houses with no adults present: teens spend time with their friends since there"s no adult supervision. Suburbia"s afternoons are dominated by teenagers: changes in population, baby boom after world war ii leading to a rapid growth in the teenage population over a decade later. The percentage of us population comprising of 15- to 19-year-olds reached highest levels in 1975. The percentage began to increase again in 1990 (the baby boomers were now having their kids) By 2000, approximately, 1 in 7 individuals in this country were adolescents (about 20 million individuals) Some researchers believe age segregation has led to a separate youth culture that has negative effects on adolescents: young people maintain attitudes and values different from the rest of society, adults and adolescents have separate spheres.
