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What is adolescence? - ✔✔- Came from the Latin word "adoleserer" means to mature or
grow up
- Adolescence as we know came about in the 20th century
- Teenager came to be after WW2 era to adolescence
- Youth = a period of transition from childhood to adulthood
What are the status types described in class? - ✔✔- Outsider
- Participator
- Pace Setter
- Rebel
- Loner
Outsider - ✔✔Passed by by culture but desires to be like the culture and included
Participator - ✔✔Actively involved in culture
Pace Setter - ✔✔Charts course for cultural expressions
Rebel - ✔✔Goes against mainstream, produces a counterculture
Loner - ✔✔Ignores the cultural norm, does his or her own thing
Ethnography - ✔✔The firsthand intensive study of the features of a given culture and
patterns in those features
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, Characteristics of Ethnographic Research - ✔✔- Focus on culture or aspects of culture
- Naturalist study of individualism on the field
- Making the familiarly strange (finding the oddity or uniqueness)
- Thick description (depth of meaning)
What is the central concept in ethnographic research? - ✔✔Culture
What is worldview and why is it so important? - ✔✔- Worldview = the way that one
views the world and acts within it
- It shapes the way that you think, act, and look at the world (the inner most layer)
What are the analogies of worldview discussed in class? - ✔✔- Iceberg
- Glasses
- Smell
Iceberg - ✔✔- Universal: on the tip everyone shares; emotions (10%)
- Cultures: unique to that culture; food, dress, sports, etc.
- Personal: individual differences; hair color, personality, music, etc.
Glasses - ✔✔Everyone views things differently
Smell - ✔✔Something that you cannot see because you are so used to it
What are the layers of culture? - ✔✔- Behavior
- Values
- Beliefs
- Worldview
Behavior - ✔✔Surface layer= What is done?
- Most superficial layer
- Leads to the questions of meaning - Why is this done?
Values - ✔✔- 2nd layer= What is good or best?
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