PSYC 3450 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Parenting, Covenant Marriage, Diana Baumrind
31 Mar 2014
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Identify and discuss historically changed from collective to individualistic (modern) cultures. 5 ways in which the social context of human development has: collective, rural, maintain status quo (stasis, fixed gender roles, marriage as a family/social/economically arrangment (india 90% ) Individual/group survival: individualistic, urban (dissolution of collective ties, novel solutions for new problems of adaptation (change/development, lgbt (gender & sexuality not discrete categories, marriage is between 2 people, for love . Be sure to discuss age of first sex and # of partners, as these pertain: fact 1: youth are biologically maturing earlier (menarche is 1 yr earlier, fact 2. People are getting married at ever later ages: males: 27 yrs ,females: 25 yrs, fact 3. Discuss how these historical shifts are reflected in this shift in values: view 1. Modern society has become self-absorbed, narcissistic, secularized (death of spirituality/religion), amoral/relativist, nihilist (life is without inherent meaning: view 2.
