CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Neuroscience, Turnitin, Credentialism And Educational Inflation

• 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 and youth. Socio-cultural theorists tend to see these as context-specific, social concepts. Traditional development psychology proposes an answer for this question. Coming into adolescence a child is in the latency stage id and ego are balanced . An internal struggle between id and super ego. So the process of adolescence is one of great internal stress. Adolescence is a time to develop abstract thinking skills. Conflict arises if society (parents) force their own way of thinking about a situation. The end result is an adult who is thought to be capable of negotiating an adult world . Enright, levy, harris and lapsley"s (1987): do economic conditions influence. How theorists view adolescents? journal of youth and adolescence, 16(6), pp. 541- Sets of statements, stories or beliefs about something. Shaping how we see and interact with the world. Distinct from ideology: some discourses of adolescence.