SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Indecent Exposure, Shoplifting, In Private

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Youth is a particular category; it is something that is not tangible; flexible category. Adolescent is a term that is used in conjunction with youth. Social construction somewhere between child and adult . Varied over time based on biological measures, legal, political and institutional standards, social expectations. Various unfixed boundaries: 12-18, 12-24, 12-30, 18-30 when examining research, be clear about definition. When psychologists focus on youth they look at brain development; brain development ends at 25, thus they believe that. We need to look at legal statues; youth age differs in different areas. Age-related laws, rules and regulations set out by government affect definitions of. Child , youth , and adult and regulate responsibilities for young people. Age matters because you are allowed to do stuff at different ages (ie driving\voting) When we have particular ages youth can commit crime one day and not be criminally. Responsible but the other day they will be criminally responsible (arbitrary rules of crime)