Chapter Eight Terms - Adolescence

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Friends

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Person with whom individuals has a valued mutual friendship

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Peers

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Are people who share some aspect of their status such as being the same age

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Intimacy

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Is the degree to which two people share personal knowledge, thoughts, and feelings

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Selective Association

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Is the principle that most people pick friends who are similar to themselves

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Instrumental Support

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Friends that help with task of various kinds

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Companionship Support

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Friends who have a reliance on each other as companion in social activities

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Esteem Support

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Friends who support each other by providing congratulations for success and encouragement or consolation for failure

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Cliques

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Small ground of friends that know each other

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Crows

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Large based groups of adolescents

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Relational Aggresion

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Form of non physical aggression that harms others by damaging their relationships by excluding them specially or spreading rumors

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Dorminory

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In some cultures where adolescents sleep and spend their leisure time

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Men’s House

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In some cultures where adolescent boys sleep and hang out with widowed or divorced men

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Participant Observation

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Research method that involves taking part in various activities with the people being studied

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Sociometry

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Method for assessing popularity and unpopularity that involves having students rate the social status of other friends

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Social Skills

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Skills for successfully handling social relations and getting along well with others

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Rejected Adolescents

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Adolescents who are disliked by their peers

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Neglected Adolescents

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Adolescents who have few or no friends and are unnoticed by their peers

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Social Information Processing

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Interpretation of others’ behavior and intentions in a social interaction

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Controversial Adolescents

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Adolescents who are aggressive but also for oases social skills

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Youth Culture

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Culture of young people as a whole, separate from children and separate from adult society, characterized by irresponsibility

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Subterranean Values

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Values such as hedonism, excitement, and adventure asserted by sociologist to be the basis of youth culture

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Demeanor

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Brake’s description of Youth cultures which refers to distinctive forms of gesture, gait, and posture

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Argot

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Youth culture certain vocabulary and a certain way of speaking

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Post Figurative Culture

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Children learn from elders

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Configurative Culture

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Children learn from other young people and adults

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Pre-Figurative Culture

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Culture in which young people teach knowledge to adults