PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter intro: Generation Gap, Compulsory Education
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Biosocial, organismic, and learning theories mainly focus on forces within the individual or their specific environment that shape development and behaviour. Sociological theories of adolescence attempt to understand how adolescents as a group come of age in society. Focus on factors all adolescents have in common by virtue of age, gender, ethnicity, social class etc. Emphasizes difference in power that exists between adult and adolescent gerations. Many adolescents are prohibited from occupying meaningful roles in society and therefore experience frustration and restlessness. Many of the problems we associate with adolescence have been created by how we"ve structured the adolescent experience and isolated young people from adults. Modification of this view says adolescent"s social class structures his or her experience of growing up. Impossible to generalize about nature of adolescence bc it varies so much depending on the resources of the adolescent"s family.
