SDS150R Lecture Notes - Aleatoricism
31 Jan 2013
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Development doesn"t follow a single pathway: variation between individuals, groups and generations, eg. Canada households over the past 10-15 years marriage and families. Development is a production of persons environmental interaction: involves understanding individuals characteristics as wells as the environmental and social context. Embedded stories: occurs within a historical context, difference in development over decades/centuries etc. Selection: choices that we make based on how we respond to our environment. Multi-directional: interactions between biological and environmental determinants (culture, family, geography) Plasticity: change is ongoing, flexibility and adaptability of humans ability to regenerate yourself. Normative age-grades: connected to chronological age, may be related to physical development, reflects societally and cultural expectations. Normative history-graded: connected to historical event or time period, shared by a group of individuals (not all, not necessarily the same way. Non-normative: connected to a particular individual, not related to age or history, unexpected event or timing (teen pregnancy) Ordered (continuous: one must occur before the other, connect to age.
