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CHYS 1F90 Jan 29 & 31, 2013
Week 4: Constructing Youth
I/ Defining terms
II/ A psychological view
III/ Role-taking
IV/ Critical theory
V/ Discourses
VI/ Midterm info, Section B
Main points
-Adolescence, teenager and youth are distinct yet overlapping concepts
-Adolescence and teenagehood are often pathologized
-There are different perspectives explaining adolescence, teenager and youth
-Socio-cultural theorists tend to see these as context-specific, social concepts
I/ Defining terms
Child
Youth
Adolescence
-Late 19th / Early 20th century
-Stanley G. Hall
-Rise in psychology and sociology
-Concerns about the future
-Embedded in the individual
-Adolescent as problem
-Sexuality as special concern
Teenager
Trouble: Post World War 2
Fun: Link to consumption
II/ Psychological adolescence
Adolescence
Risk Taking
The process of Adolescence
-The notion of “becoming” an adult
Rebellion
-Stanley Hall’s “problem”
-Controlled
-Rebelled
Why do some teens “rebel”?
Traditional Development Psychology proposes an answer for this question
Freud: Id vs Ego
Coming into adolescence a child is in the “latency” stage – Id and Ego are “balanced”
Adolescents is the “genital” stage
-Bombarded with instinctual “urges”
-An internal struggle between Id and Super Ego
So the process of adolescence is one of great internal stress
Erikson
Also a time of struggle
-To form one’s “identity”
-Breaking away from identity of parents
Truly a time of “becoming”
-Parental role is supporting
If “becoming” isn’t support, difficulties may arise
Piaget
Also a time of “becoming”
Adolescence is a time to develop “abstract thinking” skills
-Parental role is to support this
Conflict arises if society (parents) force their own way of thinking about a situation
-Doesn’t allow for teen to “practice”
A period of becoming
-Development from...