FHCE 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Wiley & Sons

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
• Course: FHCE 2100
• Professor: Dr.Kabaci

Document Summary

Looks at how chronological age, relationships, common life transitions, and social change shape people"s lives from birth to death (study of the relationship between time and human behavior) How cultural shifts affect your life over time. Time, context, process, and meaning are important for human development and family life. The family is perceived as a micro social group within a macro social context. Aging and development change are continuous processes that are experienced throughout life (ever going process) Reflects the intersection of social and historical factors with personal biography and development. Affected our life course, how family"s changed due to the event. Great depression save more, don"t spend as much money. Water crisis in flint, michigan makes us think how would our lives be changed if our water was tainted. Looks at the way a person has developed throughout different periods of life (emerging as adults, young adults, after college, early 30"s)