Adolescence Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book review: Asperger syndrome and adolescence

Bolick in her book, Asperger syndrome and adolescence, discusses the various challenges that the teenagers especially students experience during adolescence. Her main focus is on to the teenagers who suffer from Asperger syndrome and as well as sustain through the changes of puberty in the institutional environment. In most teenagers, Aspies begin to take more control of their personality traits in the period of adolescence (Bolick, 2004). The teenagers affected by this syndrome will desire social interactions and yet feel secluded than ever. This is for the main reason that the teenagers experience mood swings caused by the quick, ...

Chapter reviews

Chapter reviews

Chapter 7 Summary: Cognition

Readers can also learn the weaknesses of Piaget’s theory through its critics who look at it as a theory that under-estimates the development of children which can be beyond the factors examined by him. The chapter reading also shows that other modern constructivist theories look at the causes to different cognitive skills. The sociocultural perspective by Vygotsky's looks at the social and cultural influences as the main causes of cognitive development in children. On the other hand, Fischer's dynamic skills framework looks at skill levels as the main course for development (Sigelman, & Rider, 2014).

Important topic: Aging and cognitive skills

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The Outsiders is a two weeks narration of a 14-year-old boy’s life. The novel narrates the story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis, and his struggle to differentiate between good and bad within a society that he believes views him as an outsider. Ponyboy has two brothers named Darrel, aged 20, and Sodapop, aged 16. The three are recently orphaned, having lost their parents their parents having met their demise in an automobile accident. The two minors, Sodapop and Ponyboy, are allowed to live under Darrel’s care, on condition that they maintain good behavior. The boys are ...

William G. Perry: Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years

Perry conducts research on college age students and sets forth their intellectual and ethical development through nine positions. Position One is designated as Basic Duality. At this stage, the student places knowledge into two categories: the “in-group” and the “outgroup” (Diessner, 2008). According to Perry, position one has the following attributes: Within the in group are things familiar: truths that concern obedience. The student develops knowledge through committing items to memory and obeying Authority. The out group consists of things unknown or alien to the student. This set of knowledge is considered illegitimate and wrong. The student sees no ...

Introduction

This is actually a book written by Michael Kimmel and published in 2008. It covers culture for the young men transitioning from the adolescence to adulthood. He in fact interviewed 400 men between 16 to 26 years and observed a certain trend whereby these young men increasingly delayed their adulthood. He notes that in the year 1960, approximately 70% of the American men had by the time they reached 30 years, finished their educations, found themselves a partner and started to work. By comparison, in modern times not more than a third a third of men achieve these milestones by their thirties.
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ABSTRACT

In Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, C.J. Pascoe reported on his fieldwork in a California high school, where he observed how the norms of ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’ were enforced through formal and informal strictures that were embedded deeply in the structure and culture of school life. This included ritualized and routinized threats, ostracism, bullying and harassment of students who did not fit the expected masculine or feminine gender roles and ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’. Indeed, for adolescents, an important part of the very definitions of masculine and feminine originate in contrast to those of their peers perceived to ...