Levesque

Question 1

Social redefinition

Answer 1

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

Question 2

in all society, what is true

Answer 2

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

Question 3

identity

Answer 3

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

Question 4

autonomy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

relationship

and age of majority

Answer 5

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

Question 6

achievement

Answer 6

• they get to be a certain age before they are working full time or leaving school

Question 7

why is ado lasting longer?

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

inventionists

Answer 8

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

Question 9

the impact of industialization

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

child protectionists

Answer 10

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

Question 11

origin of ado

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

emerging adulthood

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

is emerging adulthood uni?

Answer 13

no, it depends on equity

Question 14

psyo well-being in emerging ah

Answer 14

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

Question 15

drawing a legal boundry

Answer 15

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

Question 16

initiation ceremony

Answer 16

• the formal intro of a young person into adulthood

Question 17

status offense

Answer 17

laws that are age specific

Question 18

juvenile justice system

Answer 18

a crime system only for juvenile crime

Question 19

criminal justice system

Answer 19

the court for adult offences

Question 20

ado in court

Answer 20

• more likely to confess
• less likely to understand rights, consider the long term effects of agreements, and discuss disagreements

Question 22

why have rulings been inconsistent

Answer 22

• ado behaviour is seen as dangerous or damaging
• autonomy is given when behaviour will have benefits

Question 23

variations in social transitions

Answer 23

1. clarity (explicitness)
2. continuity (smoothness)

Question 24

variation in clarity

Answer 24

• 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

Question 25

what is ado given little prep for

Answer 25

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)

Question 26

when is ado to adulthood continuous

Answer 26

- in traditional culture - hands on experience - work tasls have meaningful connections

Question 27

2 social trends reshaping the transition

Answer 27

1. the length pf transitional period 2. demand for formal edu

Question 28

poverty and transition

Answer 28

- harder for them - neg affect on school achievements

Question 29

how to ease transition

Answer 29

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

Question 30

lower class

Answer 30

- 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

Question 31

upper class

Answer 31

- more lenient with substance use and what the kids do - pressure to excel causes behavioural outbursts

Question 32

3 different mech in ways that the community affects the ado

Answer 32

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

Question 33

collective efficacy

Answer 33

- a community's social capital from it's values and goals - low = more problems - high = more expectations

Question 34

stress

Answer 34

- undermine relationships - bad parenting - exposed to more violence - help against it is: +'ve fam, extracurricular, religious beliefs

Question 35

limited access to resources

Answer 35

- poorer = less resources - higher = less likely to become antisocial

Question 36

4 stages of emerging adulthood

Answer 36

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)