What Are The Three Key Elements Of Social Transition To Adulthood
Chapter 3. Social Transitions
Social Redefinition and Psychosocial Development * The adolescent-turned-adult faces a wider range of decisions that may have serious long-term consequences (ex. Drinking) * Age of majority: the designated age at which an individual is recognized as an adult * Changes in status at adolescence may affect development in the domain of sexuality * Although societies vary in how the transition from childhood to adulthood is signified, all cultures have some way of recognizing that the individual’s rights and responsibilities have changed once he or she becomes an adult * Changes in social definition may have profound effects on development in the realms of identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, …show more content…
* In 1960, three key elements of the transition to adulthood-finishing school, moving out of the parents’ home, and getting married-occurred relatively early, and all took place within a fairly constricted time frame * The progression from adolescence to adulthood today not only is long but occurs in fits and starts
[Variations in continuity] * Benedict pointed out that a second way in which the process of social redefinition varies across cultural and historical contexts is along the dimension of continuity-the extent to which the adolescent’s transition into adulthood is gradual or abrupt * Continuous transitions: passages into adulthood in which adult roles and statuses are entered into gradually * Discontinuous transitions: passages into adulthood in which adult roles and statuses are entered into abruptly
The continuity of the adolescent passage in contemporary society * In contemporary society, we tend to exclude young ppl from the world of adults; we give them little direct training for adult life and then thrust them rather abruptly into total adult independence * Transitions into adulthood in contemporary society are therefore more discontinuous than in other cultural or historical
Social Redefinition and Psychosocial Development * The adolescent-turned-adult faces a wider range of decisions that may have serious long-term consequences (ex. Drinking) * Age of majority: the designated age at which an individual is recognized as an adult * Changes in status at adolescence may affect development in the domain of sexuality * Although societies vary in how the transition from childhood to adulthood is signified, all cultures have some way of recognizing that the individual’s rights and responsibilities have changed once he or she becomes an adult * Changes in social definition may have profound effects on development in the realms of identity, autonomy, intimacy, sexuality, …show more content…
* In 1960, three key elements of the transition to adulthood-finishing school, moving out of the parents’ home, and getting married-occurred relatively early, and all took place within a fairly constricted time frame * The progression from adolescence to adulthood today not only is long but occurs in fits and starts
[Variations in continuity] * Benedict pointed out that a second way in which the process of social redefinition varies across cultural and historical contexts is along the dimension of continuity-the extent to which the adolescent’s transition into adulthood is gradual or abrupt * Continuous transitions: passages into adulthood in which adult roles and statuses are entered into gradually * Discontinuous transitions: passages into adulthood in which adult roles and statuses are entered into abruptly
The continuity of the adolescent passage in contemporary society * In contemporary society, we tend to exclude young ppl from the world of adults; we give them little direct training for adult life and then thrust them rather abruptly into total adult independence * Transitions into adulthood in contemporary society are therefore more discontinuous than in other cultural or historical