Friday, November 21, 2008

ADOLESCENCE IN AMERICA

Even period of history within which an adolescent lives. For example, in modern American society, adolescents experience important changes in their school setting, typically involving moving from elementary school to either junior high school or middle school; and in late adolescence, there is a transition from high school to the worlds of work, university, or child-rearing. In short, one must consider the context of adolescents in order to understand them adequately.The hopes, challenges, fears, and successes of adolescence have been romanticized or dramatized in novels, short stories,and news articles. It is commonplace to survey a newsstand and to find a magazine article describing the “stormy years” of adolescence, the new crazes or fads of youth, or the “explosion” of problems with teenagers (e.g., involving crime or sexuality). However, until the past thirty to thirty- five years, when medical, biological,and social scientists began to study intensively the adolescent period, there was relatively little sound scientific information available to verify or refute the literary characterizations of adolescence.Today, however, such information does exist. It affords several generalizations
about the character of adolescent development.

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