SOC 1200 Lecture 6: Lecture 6

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Susan Miller

Document Summary

Lomoar cpsd| 987298 too much violence not punishments/remorse. First 12 years of life, care-free time for learning and play: this notion of childhood is fairly new . We defend our idea of childhood since children are biologically immature . Concept of childhood hasn"t been grounded in biology, but in culture . It reflects cultural inconsistency : time of social contradiction, no longer a child, not yet an adult. Difficult to define when someone becomes an adult once you remove biological standards of stages . Time when life"s major tasks (establishing career, raising family) are accomplished . Early adulthood (until age 40), young adults learn to manage day-to-day affairs for themselves : judging conflicting priorities. Women are more likely to try and do it all . Middle adulthood (40-60) one"s life circumstances are pretty well set . Women find middle adulthood to be emotionally trying . Increasing number of women in middle adulthood return to school and seek new careers .