HDE 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Communication, Viral Marketing, Sexting
25 Sep 2016
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Chapter 7: work, leisure, and media: adolescents" free time in contemporary society, today"s typical teenager. Spends more time in leisure activities than in productive activities. Spends more time alone than with family members; prefers to be with friends. Spends more hours per week at part-time jobs than on homework. Spends less than 5 hours per week on homework: compare: students in asian countries spend 4-5 hours per day on homework. Patterns of time use in contemporary america (graphs) In 1940, only about 3% of high school students worked during the school year: a proportion of american high school students with part-time jobs rose dramatically during the 1970s, growth of retail and service sectors of the economy. Teenagers were called upon to fill these positions because they were willing to work for relatively low wages and for short work shifts: decrease in adolescent student employees occurred in the last 15 years.
