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Adolescence

Adolescence. Intercultural differences Intracultural (subcultural) variation Historical change. psychlotron.org.uk. Traditional Cultures. Australian aborigine (Berber, 1988) Instruction in “The Law”: Moral and social codes Survival skills Origin stories

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Adolescence

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  1. Adolescence • Intercultural differences • Intracultural (subcultural) variation • Historical change psychlotron.org.uk

  2. Traditional Cultures • Australian aborigine (Berber, 1988) • Instruction in “The Law”: • Moral and social codes • Survival skills • Origin stories • Period of separation where the adolescent must survive unassisted • On return, welcomed as an adult psychlotron.org.uk

  3. Traditional Cultures • Much variation but adolescence often formally and ritually defined • Common features include: • Period of instruction • Challenge, ordeal or period of separation • Visible sign of adult status psychlotron.org.uk

  4. Individualist Emphasise individuality and competition Tend to have loose social role structures Adolescence is about learning to survive and compete as an individual Collectivist Emphasise belonging and co-operation Tend to have rigid social role structures Adolescence is about learning your place in the social group and proving you can meet your responsibilities Cultural Differences psychlotron.org.uk

  5. Subcultural Variations • ‘Coming of age’ rituals or rites of passage persist in some subcultures (e.g. religious ones) • E.g. Bar/Bat Mitzvah (Judaism); confirmation (Catholicism) confer status of adult member of congregation • Rumspringa in some (but by no means all) Amish communities • Generally have little or no impact on status in the wider/dominant culture psychlotron.org.uk

  6. Subcultural Variations • ‘Deviant’/delinquent subculture (Weiss, 1990) • Adolescents (us. working class boys) who reject school/career as a route to identity formation • Anti-school subculture with an ‘inverted’ value system; delinquent activities valued) • Arguably due to rejection by & of middle class values that dominate education psychlotron.org.uk

  7. Historical Change • The ‘adolescent’ is a recent innovation • Until the 20th century the transition between childhood and adulthood was sharper, and in some respects ritualised • E.g. first razor; keys to the house etc. • Possible that adolescence as we know it is an outgrowth of economic conditions in our society, rather than an inevitable developmental stage psychlotron.org.uk

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