Explain how socialization over the life course is culturally constructed by describing the way childhood can be different in different cultures, and how adolescence and transitions to adulthood have changed in the United States over time
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. Life stages are determined by society (socially constructed) and differ by culture, status, gender, race, class, and other factors.
2. Childhood is a relatively recent construct. In some parts of the world, children still work like adults.
3. Similarly, the stage we know as “adolescence” has developed as separate from adulthood. During this time of extended education, we are shielded from all of the responsibilities and rights of adulthood. Adolescents do not have all of the responsibilities (and freedoms) of adults, but they are understood as meaningfully distinct from “children.”
4. While getting a job or getting married long served as a clearly defined rite of passage into adulthood, the boundaries between childhood and adulthood are less clear today. Americans are delaying some of these stages much longer than they used to (and sometimes foregoing them altogether).
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The formal school curriculum, generally speaking
a. communicates and reinforces basic values and conventional beliefs about U.S. society. b. avoids passing on prevailing stereotypes about minorities and women. c. encourages children to think critically about the social world. d. tries to remain neutral regarding social and economic values.
A(n) _____ refers to people who identify with a common national origin or cultural heritage.
A. racial group B. social group C. cultural group D. reference group E. ethnic group
Science’s modes of inquiry:
a. are too expensive for most poor countries to undertake b. try to disprove what is believed to be true (failure to disprove something strengthens our belief that we are closer to the truth, though it may still elude us) c. were impossible before computer technology, though much earlier research called itself “scientific” d. are impossible in the “human sciences” where people’s behavior is too unpredictable
Which of the following is a characteristic of the systemic imperatives the authors discuss?
A) The upheaval of the status quo every few decades B) The allowance of dissidents to protest in the name of free speech C) The inertia of institutions that happens because no change is easier than change D) Participation in the political system by those who represent a wide array of interests