SOC 243 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biological Life Cycle, Hippie, Child Labour

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 243
• Professor: Kenneth Feldman

Document Summary

Soc 243 study guide 2: explain the difference between psychological adulthood and social adulthood (as given in class). Psychological factors of adulthood: responsible, mature, self-control, good use of opportunities, take your own initiative, problem-solver, have yourself together, self-realization, begin to compromise, decision-maker, think about future. Sociological factors of adulthood: marriage, children, age, pay your own bills, finished school, have your own house, financially independent, have your own job. Age carries no intrinsic meaning. (p. 272: what do they mean by this? (in addition to the handout itself, see the assigned material in clair, karp and yoels, experiencing the life cycle, 1993. ) We cannot think of the aging process in chronological or biological terms because that is a distorted way of viewing the process. We have to realize that there is no intrinsic meaning of age which means that there is no built-in, everlasting sociological interpretation.