Chapter Eight Terms - Adolescence Flashcards
Friends
Person with whom individuals has a valued mutual friendship
Peers
Are people who share some aspect of their status such as being the same age
Intimacy
Is the degree to which two people share personal knowledge, thoughts, and feelings
Selective Association
Is the principle that most people pick friends who are similar to themselves
Instrumental Support
Friends that help with task of various kinds
Companionship Support
Friends who have a reliance on each other as companion in social activities
Esteem Support
Friends who support each other by providing congratulations for success and encouragement or consolation for failure
Cliques
Small ground of friends that know each other
Crows
Large based groups of adolescents
Relational Aggresion
Form of non physical aggression that harms others by damaging their relationships by excluding them specially or spreading rumors
Dorminory
In some cultures where adolescents sleep and spend their leisure time
Men’s House
In some cultures where adolescent boys sleep and hang out with widowed or divorced men
Participant Observation
Research method that involves taking part in various activities with the people being studied
Sociometry
Method for assessing popularity and unpopularity that involves having students rate the social status of other friends
Social Skills
Skills for successfully handling social relations and getting along well with others
Rejected Adolescents
Adolescents who are disliked by their peers
Neglected Adolescents
Adolescents who have few or no friends and are unnoticed by their peers
Social Information Processing
Interpretation of others’ behavior and intentions in a social interaction
Controversial Adolescents
Adolescents who are aggressive but also for oases social skills
Youth Culture
Culture of young people as a whole, separate from children and separate from adult society, characterized by irresponsibility
Subterranean Values
Values such as hedonism, excitement, and adventure asserted by sociologist to be the basis of youth culture
Demeanor
Brake’s description of Youth cultures which refers to distinctive forms of gesture, gait, and posture
Argot
Youth culture certain vocabulary and a certain way of speaking
Post Figurative Culture
Children learn from elders
Configurative Culture
Children learn from other young people and adults
Pre-Figurative Culture
Culture in which young people teach knowledge to adults
