ANT322H1 Chapter Notes -Lev Vygotsky, Youth Culture, Ernest Hemingway
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Struggles with the coming-of-age pubescent period: columbine incident, 1999. 13 high school students killed by 2 boys who then killed themselves. Attempting to destroy that peer system as a hypocritical and ultimately deleterious one. Columbine incidents are mostly just aberrations (not the norm: in fact, adolescent period has always been one of searching for self-knowledge and enlightenment, not one of criminality! Examples of this matter-of-fact period of life: the biblical story of the prodigal son. Upon finding it, changed the society of his era by introducing a new philosophy and religion in the world. Term literally means he who grows up (on his own) . Teenager coined more recently late 1930s in america: coinage signaled the fact that adolescents were starting to set themselves apart noticeably from adults. Teeny-bopper and tween indicative of prepubescent children who manifest lifestyle behaviours imitative of teenage ones.
