SOCSCI 2P03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Erik Erikson, George Herbert Mead, Kingsley Davis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SOCSCI 2P03
• Professor: Louis A Schmidt

Document Summary

A brief history of youth children play and spend time doing leisure activities. Today it takes longer to achieve this coming of age . The concern for those in our community who are coming of age . Youth wasted on the young not true. If you live in a collectivist culture, less tension between youth and adults living for others, taught to respect adults ex. Coming of age again delayed: phenomenon of collective outbursts, sensationalism vs understanding, young people became depending on their parents. Why study adolescents: recognition of life-span development , adolescence a way station stage . Teens may have babies but does this make them adults no! Can"t solve complex issues, haven"t developed cognitively cognitive as children gets older, abstract thinking, critical thinking and metacognition becomes possible problem solving. Too messy: sociological onset of puberty and sexual maturity typically indicates. Incremental progression adolescence can end at different ages: as we became more industrialized, credentialism has become extremely important.