FRHD 2280 Lecture 5: lecture 5

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Henry Thille

Document Summary

Under di erent conditions does adolescence present a di erent picture? margaret mead. Coming of age in samoa (1928) travelled to samoa and studied the adolescents and the cultures there came back to america and noted that american adolescents were very di erent than. Symbolic inheritance your guide on how to live your life. Gender roles ideas of males and females are shifting. Socialization self regulation role preparation sources of meaning. Collectivist and the interdependent self cooperation mutual support harmonious relationships personal contributions. Independent self independence individual freedom individual achievement. Cultural de ne the range and focus of acceptable personal variation. Cultures di er in the degree of restrictiveness they impost. Narrow socialization is to collectivism as broad socialization is individualism. Bear in mind individualism-collevtism and broad-narrow are not meant to imply moral evaluations. Western culture there are shifts in this throughout adolescence, the di erent levels of in uence of each puzzle piece.