CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Developmental Psychology, Latency Stage, Turnitin

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Rebecca Raby

Document Summary

Adolescence, teenager and youth are distinct yet overlapping concepts. There are different perspectives explaining adolescence, teenager & youth. Socio-cultural theorists tend to see these as context-specific, social concepts. Un - anyone who is under 18 years old. Not a prominent term until the late 19th century: stanley g. hall. Discovered adolescence / made the category become more popular. Manhood (adolescence as a time to cultivate manhood) Risk taking, reckless, rebellion, curious, misunderstood, emotional, incomplete, impulsive, living vicariously. After ww2 -> teenager became a popular term: associated with trouble. Men coming back -> teenagers seen as teenagers: concerns. Linked to fun -> factories creating consumer goods (e. g. car, domestic instruments stoves, vaccum cleaners) Jokes/pranks -> more fun: motorcycles, cars -> more ways to get to places, more consumer goods to use, little family scene, associated with working class family, more disposable income -> more ads identified to teenagers.