In my observation of unsupervised adolescent for part A of paper I observed some adolescents in the time square in New York city. During my trip to new I encounter my unsupervised kids. In New York during the summer season there are many kids from all over the world. This observation took place on June 19th, 10 am there were a lot of people visiting from different places of the world. I observed unsupervised adolescents for two sessions of two hours a piece in New York city. I sat across GMA studios in time square where there are many kids around mostly enjoying a sunny Sunday. New York city streets always seem to be crowded and the fact that it 's summer time only amplifies a number of people here. I walked a couple blocks to time square …show more content…
Time square is full of street performers and vendors selling so I got to see a wide range of ages in the adolescent phase. The four girls that were looking for where they are going these girls seemed about 16 years old average for the group. I believe that the girls were from the north because they had Canadian accents saying ay a lot giving further evidence of this was how they switch to French when talking to one another. Because these girls were speaking French I couldn’t understand them so I decided to observe heavily on the group of kids dancing in the square. The next group of adolescent I observed were a group of black teenage males wearing matching red jumpsuits and tennis shoes setting up orange cones to perform on the street, I don’t believe they have permission to section off a part of the sidewalk. Before the performance began the kids were yelling out in the square for attention and making jokes about what they do. Many of the people in the area ignored and stayed closely on their trying to not notice them, I was one of those people. This was a group of all male teenagers you called them “Flip squad” which made sense because the kids were flipping around and dancing. One of the guys said he was a Dominican and started speaking in Spanish and another of the fellows had a short buzz cut. The boys in this group seems well
Adolescence is popularly known to be a very tumultuous stage in a person’s life. In the adolescent stage (also coined the identity vs. role confusion stage by theorist Erik Erikson) bodies are changing rapidly, emotions are unfamiliar and unexplainable, and refraining from succumbing to peer pressure is more challenging than ever.
In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, it's built around the class division between the Socs and the greasers. The kids in the Socs came from privileged and wealthy families while the greaser grew up in a unstable and poor environment, and it shaped who they are and how they act. The novel deals with issues important to urban teens, and the obstacles that are part of their daily lives, showing realism in Hinton's writing. In the article ¨The Urban Experience in Recent Young Adult Novels¨ by Sandra Hassell and Sandy Guild, it discuss the importance of urban teens worlds represented in literature. The article consists of many characteristics that are established in urban youth books such as, the usage of slang, strong sense of community,
In modern-day society, there are numerous people who take pleasure in separating themselves from the typical standards of society; however, there are also people who feel uncomfortable expressing themselves in the own, distinctive ways. Because they feel this way, many adolescents believe that by camouflaging themselves into their peer’s behaviors and beliefs that they will fit in with social norm, accepted beliefs and behaviors in a social group or society, and the reason why they have this mentality, is because of the lack of confidence to express their ideas in their own unique ways. The belief that students and kids have to live up to social norms, are implemented on them by social influences, more specifically, their peers.
Both normative and nonnormative influences and nature and nurture influences both shed light on human development over childhood and adolescence. The nature and nurture debate refers to whether particular aspects of development are a result of inherited characteristics (nature) or obtained characteristics (nurture). The answer to what characteristics were obtained by which source is a difficult task as there is still much to learn about the way genetic markers work and how their patterning influence organisms. Instead nature and nurture should be looked at as a intricate ecology (Claiborne, Drewery, Paki, & Peters, 2014). This is where characteristics are not considered to have only a single source but can linked to a contribution of our genetic
From the time they are little, youths are being trained for adulthood whether they realize it or not. They must get used to the ways of the world if they are to survive in it. Perhaps the most tragic is the attempt to escape. Eady describes the children as fighting what is expected of them by “reach[ing] in self-defense” for a way to express themselves(27). They try to hide behind the wigs, lipstick, and sequins of a life they can only dream of.
“In our media-intensive culture it is not difficult to find differing opinions… The difficulty lies in deciding which opinion to agree with and which ‘experts’ seem the most credible” (Espejo 11). The perceptions of one age group in society of another age group are built upon assumptions that are made through what is visible. However, rarely is anyone willing to understand the reason behind someone’s actions. Sibling rivalry, the death of a loved one, moving to a new school, competition among peers, and the reputation adolescents have today often end up giving a misperception of society to teens and of teens to society, thus damaging the relationships between society, as illustrated by J.D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye.
Teens today do not realize what separation of society into “groups” can really mean.The things that seem inconceivable now can become plausible by the classification of “others.” Elie Wiesel’s Night shows that something as small as being classified as Jewish (through a star) can lead to a discrimination and a genocide. What was normal at that time (the star) quickly became terrible. What will the norms today be considered tomorrow? This is the question that teens today fail to realize. Teens today usually have small circles that they are obligated to. Night shows teens that the universe of obligation is something that needs to be readily expanded. If teens refuse to expand their circle, that will lead to a classification of groups.
Q has reached maximum body growth and biological aging or senescence has begun. Biological ageing is “genetically influenced declines in the functioning of organs and systems that are universal in all members of our species” (Berk, 2010, p. 432). Q exercises daily but he admits that he doesn’t eat a healthy diet all the time. “Regular moderate to
I did my observation in P.S./M.S. 188 The Island School. The address of the school is 442 East Houston Street Manhattan, NY 10002. I worked with a teacher name Mrs. Parys. I was observing room 414. This is 6th grade class.
I felt as though many of my expectations going into this assignment were different than what I actually witnessed. It is probably due to the short observational period, rather than an indicator of “the new-norm” in adolescent behavior, or profound luck at observing the only two well-behaved teenagers in the state. Therefore, my take-away from this assignment is that I have preconceived notions of expected teenage behavior, that I have constructed from my time with my own children. I expected too, to see more activity than I did.
In The Merchants of Cool, Rushkoff goes to a teenage party to survey rising trends and notices a strange phenomenon. The girls dancing in front of his camera seemed to be selling the same exaggerated sex appeal that corporations were selling to the teenagers. He labeled this sensation a sort of “giant feedback loop” which implied that, since corporations try to mirror teenage behavior and then pervert that into a more explicit version to sell back, which in turn causes teenagers to emulate the corporation’s behavior, teenagers are incapable of having a genuine culture to call their own, much like the young
The movie thirteen is a raw psychodrama directed by Catherine Hardwicke is based on the life of a young teenage girl, Tracy Freeland whom catapults from pre adolescence/childhood to a wild and rebellious thirteen year old girl. Filmed in Los Angeles, Tracey and her mother’s relationship are put to the test when she befriends Evie. Evie is a popular girl from junior high school who introduces her to the world of sex, drugs and self-mutilation. We see a physical and psychological change in Tracey almost overnight, as her kinship with Evie transforms into a toxic relationship. Tracey’s early traumatic life experiences, manifests into a co-morbidity of depression and borderline personality disorder that affects her ability to cope with an
The names used in this Adolescent Observation Report are fictitious. This is absolutely necessary to protect the privacy of the adolescent being observed.
Walking around, the area feels residential and I feel very safe. In many ways, the neighborhood is very similar to where I grew up. In the middle of the day the blocks are quiet and not highly trafficked. At 3 pm in the afternoon, they are occupied with kids carrying backpacks; roughly one quarter of the neighborhood is young people under the age of 18 and 5% is under the age of 5 . Until I saw the faces of these adolescents and teens walking home, the best indication that I had available to speculate on the racial composition of the neighborhood were the pictures and products in the window of a hair salon a few blocks away; I assumed that members of the community are predominantly African America, Caribbean, and Latino. In addition, from passing a few individuals on the streets, I also assumed that there are some Caucasians
Who are you? This question could be exceedingly intricate to answer if you were to ask an adolescent. Teens are experiencing countless changes in their development, which is why it is such a significant time for them. During this time teenagers develop their sense of self. Film has helped portray some of the changes that occur during this evolving developmental period. For this paper, I will be describing the differences between two adolescent films to depict differences in developing the self. Some differences I will cover include types of self, Erickson’s Identity Crisis, Marcia’s Identity Status Interview theory, and culture over time.(Arnett, 2013)