EDPY304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Age Segregation, Compulsory Education, Baby Boom

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Education - Psychology
• Course: EDPY304
• Professor: Sophie Yohani

Document Summary

Changes in the number of adolescents may warrant changes in the allocation of funds for social services, educational programs, and health care. Changes in the size of the adolescent population have implications for understanding the behaviours of cohorts. Grouping adolescents by age and sending them off to school is not an effective strategy for socializing them for adulthood, since their family ties, not their age, Peer groups function much more often without adult supervision than they do during childhood. Adolescents are more mobile and partly because they seek, and are granted, more independence. Increasingly more contact with peers is between males and females: during childhood, peer groups are highly sex segregated. Adolescence marks the emergence of large collective of peers called crowds. The peer setting in which adolescents learn social skills: likely to contribute more to the adolescent"s sense of identity and. In a study, students of all ages agreed that it was less acceptable to deny.