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- Psychological v. Sociological approach to the study of development:
- developmental psychologists: change in psychological characteristics
- sociologists: acquisition of social roles and movement through social institutions
- What is a social role?
- position in society that has particular norms, behaviors, beliefs, values, and statuses associated with it
- roles provide meaning and guide behavior
- Schlegel & Barry: Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (Aries, 2.2)
- defines 'adolescence' in terms of social roles, not age
- key to social adolescence is anticipatory socialization
- predictors of parent:adolescent conflict
- predictors of sexual permissiveness
- rites of passage
- to adolescence
- to adulthood
- change of gender norms and segregation with onset of adolescence
- separation
- leisure
- romantic love
- evidence for universalism
- contradicts inventionist perspective