SOC244H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Developmental Psychology, Collins English Dictionary, Erik Erikson
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Lecture 7: family life courses life course perspective in family studies. Stage 2: childbearing families (oldest child, birth-30 months) Stage 3: families with pre-school children (oldest child, 2. 5-6 years) Stage 4: families with schoolchildren (oldest child, 6-13 years) Stage 5: families with teenagers (oldest child, 13-20 years) Stage 6: families are launching centers (first child gone to last child leaving home) Stage 7: middle-age parents ( empty nest to retirement) Stage 8: aging family members (retirement to death of both spouses) Five basic themes of the life course perspective. A life course perspective emphasizes the importance of time, context, process and meaning on human development and family life. Family events and family transitions influence individuals and interactions. Historical time events in the broader social context influence roles and values. The term childhood is generally recognised as a socially constructed phenomenon. Chronologically, childhood has been variously described as: the period from birth to 6 or.
