کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
937643 924526 2011 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Past and present of adolescence in society: The ‘teen brain’ debate in perspective
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Past and present of adolescence in society: The ‘teen brain’ debate in perspective
چکیده انگلیسی

Understood as the stage in individual life comprised between physiological puberty (a “natural” condition) and the recognition of the adult status (a “cultural” construction), adolescence has been envisaged as a universal condition, a stage in human development to be found in all societies and historical moments. Nevertheless, anthropological foundings across space and times depinct a more complex panorama. The large variety of situations can be grouped into five big models of adolescence, which correspond to different types of society: “puber” from the primitive stateless societies; “ephebe” from ancient states; “boy and girl” from pre-industrial rural societies; “teenager” from the first industrialisation process and “youngsters” from modern post-industrial societies. In order to describe the features of these five models of youth, this article presents a series of ethnographical examples to illustrate the enormous plasticity of adolescence in past and present. This perspective is to be considered as the psico-social and cultural environment for adolescent brain development, that will be discussed in depth along in this special issue.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews - Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 1634–1643
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