An Adult Society

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-98
Author(s):  
Norman Evans
Keyword(s):  
Adult Society

Of Children, Adults, and Tomorrow

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamal J. Elias
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Adult Society ◽  
Emotion And Affect

Continuing with the discussion of sacrifice and gender that was a major element of the previous chapter, this chapter argues that emotive constructs are moral contracts that both derive from and shape society as a pious community. As such, emotion is related to virtue and is therefore aspirational. In the makeup of the social unit, morale serves as an indicator of the condition and functioning of individual bodies within the group and of the collective disposition to which the group aspires in acknowledgment of morale’s social vitality. Morale becomes linked to aspiration for a better future, one populated by finer individuals, including oneself. As such, the quest for morale becomes imbricated in the desire to shape childhood and to use children to shape adult society. Drawing together the data, methodologies, and analysis of the previous chapters, the final chapter sharpens conclusions concerning the ways in which children stand in for adults in a variety of ways and how adult anxieties and aspirations are projected upon and experienced through children, transforming them into repositories of adult intentionalities. In the process, the visual image becomes the site of the performance, emotion, and affect.

Adolescence: Struggling Through the Doldrums

2016 ◽  
pp. 187-196
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
County Council ◽  
Senior Staff ◽  
The Real ◽  
Atom Bomb ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specific Phase ◽  
Adult Society

In this talk to London County Council Children’s Department senior staff, Winnicott describes the features of adolescence that he believes are important for this audience of his to attend to. He speaks of each adolescent having to negotiate this age-specific phase, whilst also dealing with the onset of puberty, so as to arrive at adulthood. He is aware that adolescent breakdowns put a strain on society and require toleration and treatment. For Winnicott, three social developments have altered the climate of adolescence: treatment for venereal disease, the availability of contraceptive techniques, and the creation of the atom bomb, all of which affects the relationship between adult society and adolescence. The adolescent is pre-potent, and does not accept false solutions. The real cure for adolescence is the passage of time, and to get through this development stage, there will be a period Winnicott calls the adolescent doldrums.

The Spark of Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Wesley C. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Young People ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Open Society ◽  
The South ◽  
Full Bloom ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Adult Society

When it became clear that the civil rights movement had not quite managed to drag segregation behind the barn and shoot it to death, others stepped in and picked up the fight. SONG created some room to move in the vital crawl spaces across the South in the 1990s, modeling intersectional organizing that would come to full bloom in the 2010s. The Ella Baker Center in Oakland has spent the better part of three decades figuring out how to grow successive generations of youth organizers to redirect public monies toward education, not prison. Youth immigrant organizers have taught the nation to value family emancipation and reunification as an essential right. The Movement for Black Lives and youth water protectors at Standing Rock have shined a brilliant spotlight on the mounting reality of government and corporate authoritarianism—surveillance, beating, shooting, warrantless taps, repeat arrests, mass incarceration. All of these organizations have advanced visions for a just and open society, doing so where adult society has dismally failed. In each case, it has been young people, not corporations or established parties or law enforcement, who pushed the nation a step further toward its self-proclaimed ideal of “liberty and justice for all.”

scholarly journals Cultivating Social Capital through Summer Employment Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. McMurphy ◽  
Robert D. Weaver ◽  
Katka Hrncic-Lipovic ◽  
Nazim Habibov
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Disadvantaged Youth ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
Adult Society

Significant socio-economic shifts, such as the emergence of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ have transformed the transition from adolescence to adulthood, as youth are expected to garner a considerable amount of personal, cognitive, social, and educational skills in order to successfully enter adult society and prosper within the market economy. An additional determinant of the successful transition of youth into adult society is the availability of social capital through relationships and networks that can provide access to valuable resources and information and contribute to the development of a social identity. Employment programs are a mechanism for providing youth with workforce exposure and skill development in the absence of market opportunities. These programs are also a potential source of social capital, through the exposure to new environments and the development of relationships and networks that can provide resources that youth may not have access to through traditional means. Using a qualitative approach, we explored the perspectives of youth participants in a summer employment program in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. We propose that the opportunity to develop social capital is an under-recognized benefit of employment programs, and may be a particularly important aspect for disadvantaged youth. 

scholarly journals Uma interpretação teológica da violência contra a juventude

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (311) ◽  
pp. 590
Author(s):  
Paulo Fernando Dalla-Déa
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Human Sacrifice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Adult Society ◽  
Sacrifice Of Isaac

O artigo trata da violência contra a juventude atual, confrontando-a com dados bíblicos relevantes sobre o tema. Começando pelo sacrifício de Isaac e passando pelos evangelhos, o texto apresenta uma hermenêutica a partir do caldo da violência recebida pela juventude. A sociedade adulta manipula os jovens, culpabilizando-os e transformando-os de vítimas em algozes. A juventude precisa acreditar em si mesma, não se amarrar nas armaduras e ferramentas adultas e inventar suas próprias soluções. Jesus nos mostra que quer os jovens em pé, falando, se relacionando e vivendo. Os cristãos precisam gritar como o anjo para Abraão: Agora já chega! Deus não quer sacrifícios humanos!Abstract: This article deals with the violence on contemporary youth, confronting it with relevant biblical data on the subject. Starting with the sacrifice of Isaac and through the Gospels, the text presents a hermeneutics from the broth of violence received by youth. The adult society manipulates young people blame them and turning them into victims tormentors. The youth needs to believe in herself, not tie in armor and adult tools and come up with their own solutions. Jesus shows us that wants young people standing, talking, relationships and living. Christians need to shout like Angel to Abraham: that’s it! God doesn’t want human sacrifice!Keywords: Young; Violence; Jesus Christ; Bible; Youth Pastoral.

scholarly journals The "subtle violence" Adultized children and educational challenges

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Demozzi
Keyword(s):  
Western Society ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
The Right ◽  
Great Paradox ◽  
Children Rights ◽  
Adult Society

The article focuses on the topic of "adultized" children seen as an expression of a "subtle violence" that Western society plays against new generations. After defining the concept of subtle violence, the article analyses those situations in which childhood risks its disappearance and in which children are treated as "little adults". What are the challenges this trend poses to the pedagogical thinking? And which are the trajectories that, starting from both micro and macro analysis, can be pursued so that adult society can guarantee the protection and respect of children rights, first of all, the right to have a childhood? Conclusions try to answer – albeit not exhaustively – to these questions, outlining some epistemological paths in order to overstep the great paradox of a ‘'dumb childhood" and for the recognition of its right to be respectfully cared.

THE CHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATE: COMMENTS OF A PRACTICING PEDIATRICIAN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-11
Author(s):  
Ralph A. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Adult Society

As one of the early practitioners of the "New Pediatrics," first talked about in the 1950s, I have been asked to give some of my reflections on recent developments in pediatric practice which Silver and Ott describe in the paper under review. The satisfactions of long-term care of children and their families have been extolled frequently and are very real to those of us who have pursued this type of practice. The failures of too large a number of youngsters under our care to reach satisfactory adjustment in adult society offer frustrations equally real and even more poignant. The gnawing doubt that anything we have done is responsible for the good results is alleviated somewhat by our feeling that factors beyond our control are the cause of the failures. Despite all the testimonials from patients and their families to our skill in helping, and the opposing and rather more vocal diatribes of others against the "permissiveness" allegedly fostered by Benjamin Spock, I sometimes ask myself: Has the output of 80% of my time in many years of pediatric practice really made use of the large input in time and effort by school, hospital, and individual? It is clear that the skills learned during training years have been a boon to the 20% of patients who required expert care in diagnoses, treatment, and preventive pediatrics. But what about that other 80%? From comments in periodicals by dissatisfied pediatricians, from the large number of young and not so young practitioners who year by year give up the "New Pediatrics," and from annoyances expressed with the demands made by and material returns available from pediatric practice, I assume that many of my colleagues have found the balance of frustrations weighing heavily against the satisfactions.

scholarly journals Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
danah boyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Networked Publics ◽  
Adult Society

As social network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday social practices—gossiping, flirting, joking around, sharing information, and simply hanging out. While social network sites were predominantly used by teens as a peer-based social outlet, the unchartered nature of these sites generated fear among adults. This dissertation documents my 2.5-year ethnographic study of American teens’ engagement with social network sites and the ways in which their participation supported and complicated three practices—self-presentation, peer sociality, and negotiating adult society.

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