ADULTHOOD: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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ADULTHOODSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Lindsay Anderson, Natalie Piper, Eleni Keramidas
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• ACTIVITY!!!!!

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Objective- Each will have a career taped on
the back of your shirt. You must figure out what
career you pursued only by asking your fellow co-
workers yes and no questions.
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• Once You All Find out what career you pursued, go
  around and explain if you are happy with the
  career you chose, or if you would go back to
  school to pick something different.

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SOCIAL CLOCK

• The Social Clock is the cultural prescription of
  the right time to
• Leave Home
• Get A Job
• Marry
• Have Children
• Retire

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Two Basic Aspects In Adulthood

• Sigmund Freud 1935 The healthy adult is one that
  can love and work.
• Generativity (Erik Erickson)
• Being productive and supporting future
  generations
• Intimacy
• Forming Close Relationship

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Midlife Transition

• A.K.A. midlife crisis is a time of great
  struggle, of regret, or even of feeling struck
  down by life.
• Ex. Man buying a sports car for no reason.

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Satisfaction Of Life OVERALL

• Multinational surveys show that age differences
  in life satisfaction are trivial (Inglehart,
  1990).

Percentage satisfied with life as a whole
80
60
40
20
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Taken from Mr. Gs Powerpoint!
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25
35
45
55
65
Age group