Levesque Flashcards

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Social redefinition

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the process when a person’s social status is redefined by society

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2
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in all society, what is true

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  • ado is a period of social transition
  • each person becomes an adult
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3
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identity

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when someone is seen as an adult, they take on more responsiblity and think about the future more

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autonomy

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  • adult status shifts thier roles in responsibilty, independence, and freedom
  • more decisions that have more conseqences
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5
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relationship

and age of majority

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  • new decisions about intimacy, dating, and marriage
  • aom: the age when they turn into an adult
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achievement

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  • they get to be a certain age before they are working full time or leaving school
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7
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why is ado lasting longer?

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  • start puberty earlier and enter into adult roles later
  • begin in bio and end in culture
  • costs have risen, so economic lags to psyo
  • formal edu is now needed for a lot of jobs
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8
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inventionists

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theorists who say that ado is a social invention
- ado is different with each culture

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9
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the impact of industialization

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  • children use to be mini adults
  • broke the connection between what individual learned in childhood and what they need to know as an adult
  • parents wanted kids to stay in school longer
  • staying in school weakened the comp for jobs
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10
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child protectionists

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  • they said that ado need to be kept out of hazardous workplaces
  • 20th century
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origin of ado

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  • 19th century
  • prep time for adulthood
  • started in middle class
  • teen: pop ~50 yrs ago, and is a replacement for ado (started from advertisers)
  • youth: today its for ages 18-22, then it was for ages 12-24
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emerging adulthood

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  • ages 18-25
    5 main char:
    1. exploring new identities
    2. instability in life
    3. focus on themself and independence
    4. cuaght between an ado and adult
    5. life holds many possibilites
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13
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is emerging adulthood uni?

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no, it depends on equity

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psyo well-being in emerging ah

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  • little research
  • difficult for financial stability
  • carefreeness
  • sig. mental illness and suicide
  • depression decreases
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drawing a legal boundry

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  1. inititation ceremony
  2. status offense
  3. juvenile justice system
  4. criminal justice system
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16
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initiation ceremony

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  • the formal intro of a young person into adulthood
17
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status offense

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laws that are age specific

18
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juvenile justice system

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a crime system only for juvenile crime

19
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criminal justice system

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the court for adult offences

20
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ado in court

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  • more likely to confess
  • less likely to understand rights, consider the long term effects of agreements, and discuss disagreements
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22
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why have rulings been inconsistent

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  • ado behaviour is seen as dangerous or damaging
  • autonomy is given when behaviour will have benefits
23
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variations in social transitions

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  1. clarity (explicitness)
  2. continuity (smoothness)
24
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variation in clarity

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  • no clear age when different responsibilites are given
  • look for self reliance
  • less definition for the importance of marriage and parenthood
  • males and females have similar role expectations
25
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what is ado given little prep for

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ado is given little prep for working (not have the same job from teen to adult), parenthood (little training), and citizenhip (little involvement in politics)

26
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when is ado to adulthood continuous

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  • in traditional culture
  • hands on experience
  • work tasls have meaningful connections
27
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2 social trends reshaping the transition

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  1. the length pf transitional period
  2. demand for formal edu
28
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poverty and transition

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  • harder for them
  • neg affect on school achievements
29
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how to ease transition

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  • restructure 2nd edu
  • expand work and volunteer oppertunities
  • improve the community life
  • encourage to spend time in the community
  • develop mentoring programs
30
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lower class

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  • watch kids more closely
  • not great role models in the community
  • more sexually active at a younger age
  • become pregent and drop out of school
31
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upper class

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  • more lenient with substance use and what the kids do
  • pressure to excel causes behavioural outbursts
32
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3 different mech in ways that the community affects the ado

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  1. collective efficancy
  2. impact of stress
  3. limited access to resources
33
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collective efficacy

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  • a community’s social capital from it’s values and goals
  • low = more problems
  • high = more expectations
34
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stress

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  • undermine relationships
  • bad parenting
  • exposed to more violence
  • help against it is: +’ve fam, extracurricular, religious beliefs
35
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limited access to resources

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  • poorer = less resources
  • higher = less likely to become antisocial
36
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4 stages of emerging adulthood

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  1. tech (manufacturing to eco knowledge)(more edu = delay in fam starting)
  2. sexual (birth control)(broken link to sex, marriage, and reprodution)
  3. women’s movement (majority of post 2nd are women)(less need to find a man and new outlook on life)
  4. youth movement (prolong youth)
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