SOCIOLOGY ESSAYS – ADOLESCENCE he schooling experiences of African American girls in long term foster care and their transition into womanhood. Adolescence is defined as the pe pt1 2300w
SOCIOLOGY ESSAYS – ADOLESCENCE he schooling experiences of African American girls in long term foster care and their transition into womanhood. Adolescence is defined as the pe pt1 2300w
SOCIOLOGY ESSAYS – ADOLESCENCE pt1 2300w
The schooling experiences of African American girls in long term foster care and their transition into womanhood.
Adolescence is defined as the period between childhood and adulthood when personal growth takes place (Hopkins, 1983). Adolescence is also characterized as the period of experimentation, strong identification with certain people and groups, active fantasy lives, and probing into various philosophies, vocations, and the self (Liebert & Wicks-Nelson, 1981). Cobb (1995) attempts to create a cohesive definition that encompasses the biological, psychological, and sociological. Cobb’s definition of adolescence is as follows: “Adolescence is a period in life that begins with biological maturation, during which individuals accomplish certain developmental tasks, and that ends when they achieve a self-sufficient state of adulthood as defied by society” (p.27). A commonly accepted definition of adolescence created by psychologist Erik Erikson, (1968) describes the process of adolescence as a period during which young people grapple with the question of who they will become as well as who