The social view on adolescent sexuality varies across cultures, societies, communities, and families. It is a controversial topic because some individuals perceive sexuality as an important development of a teenager’s gender and identity, while others are opposed to the sexual interaction of adolescence. In the book Not Under My Roof, Amy Schalet demonstrates that in the Netherlands, society provides information and support about sexuality to teenagers. The normalization of sexual behavior in the Netherlands has allowed teenagers to develop a greater control over their sexual desires. In contrast, America’s perspective of adolescent sexuality makes the experience unenjoyable to young adults.…
Chapter 1 The main subject of this chapter is the dissection of how clerkage began to be seen as a means to independence from the earlier generations of strict morals and gender roles. The author argues in this chapter that in an effort to distance themselves from less respectable or more dependent walks of life, workers were drawn to more office oriented jobs that required special skills. A specific piece of evidence that the author uses to support her case is her evaluation of how the number of clerks in Boston increased by nearly 1000%. Chapter 2…
Summary “Teenage Social Media Butterflies May Not Be Such a Bad Idea” written by Melissa Healy. This is about today’s social media kids may not be such of a mess after all. In the article it says electronics are the way kids learn emotional bonds, their identities, and the ability to communicate and work with others. Also it says that kids spend at least 7 ½ hours a day on social media. Healy says that social media is far less scary than many parents believe.…
Personal Connections in the Modern World “I’m So Totally, digitally, Close to You: The Brave New World of Digital Intimacy,” by a former Knight Fellow at MIT, Clive Thompson, follows the path of how technology has made us closer than ever and farthest apart at the same time. Thompson captures the reader’s attention by describing how Mark Zuckerberg changed the way Facebook worked forever. He then describes how adults who were at first skeptical about using social media got into using it on a regular basis, how social media can help you connect with people more, what the Dunbar number is and how it has changed, and how social media is ruining our lives. Thompson’s article is effective because he combines interviews from multiple people about…
(p12, Coll 2) To clarify, social media takes away the need to talk to friends face to face, which can destroy friendships. To emphasize, the article also argues, “A typical teen sends more than 200 texts a week and spends 45 hours a week in front of a screen.” (P12, Coll 3) Since teens value electronics,…
High concerns are raised when Twenge states, “eighth-graders who are heavy users of social media increase their risk of depression by 27 percent, while those who play sports, go to religious services, or even do homework more than the average teen cut their risk significantly” (5). Accordingly, the use of logical appeal is clever here. Not only will this encourage teenagers to participate in more active lifestyles, but it will persuade parents to limit smartphone use at home. Cause and effect play a major role in the development of this idea as well; if teens engage in their cell phones too often, then they have a higher risk of depression. We, as readers, may be convinced to change our habits after this realization.…
Is technology really taking over the world or are we just going crazy about it? They’re many people over the world concert about technology taking over the world but there’s two point of views presented in “Technology Taking Over?” by Yzzy Gonzalez and in “The Parent Trap: How Teens Lost Ability to Socialize “by Clive Thompson. One issue is waking up to see your phone and what happen while you were sleeping. The other issue is why parents aren’t giving kids more freedom to actually socialize with friends.…
Given these estimation, it is greater clear that cyberspace equips the social networking forum where tech-savvy teenagers can interact with one another. In fact, the popularity of cyber exchanging information shows by statistics revealing that about half of all adolescents interact with friends and meet new online users via social networking sites (Lenhart & Madden,…
Melissa Avdeeff’s essay “Beyonce and Social Media: Authenticity and the Presentation of Self is about how celebrities or musicians create their public private persona through the use of visual aids. Ms. Avdeeff explains that scholars who study the current popular culture, especially in the music or entertainment industry view the digital social media and what is “authenticity”. Beyonce and others like her use social media to reveal specific visual images in order to control how her fans view their public private selves and give an altered view such as being glamorous which might not be quite accurate. Social media and fandom is an expanding area of research the use of person is very common.…
Student Name: Ho-Ling Helen Chan Student Number: 212855904 Introduction and Summary of Content Throughout Brainstorm: the Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Daniel Siegel (2013) implied adolescents thrive due to their highly flexible and adaptable brain. Siegel (2013) worked as clinical psychiatry professor after graduating from medical school; his children furthered his enthusiasm in determining the surge in dopamine (DP) and other hormones led to the intense neural rewiring within their brains. Siegel (2013) believed the increase desire to connect with other peers motivate adolescents to purse creative and novel experiences. Although the adolescent brain is highly flexible and adaptable, the early limbic system maturity, the protracted…
In an article titled “What’s Holding Back American Teenagers?” by author Laurence Steinberg, the claim is made that, “Our high schools are a disaster.” Steinberg begins by mentioning education policies which had recently come to the attention of Obama during his term as president. This involved two issues, the first being early-childhood education and the second being college accessibility; however, Steinberg’s article preferred to focus on a third issue: American high schools. Throughout the article, he continually reflected on research from organizations such as OECD, The National Assessment of Educational Progress, and The National Center for Education Statistics.…
Today, over 76% of teenagers use social media and 94% of teens check their phone daily. Tennagers sepnd too much time with and on their phones. This causes them to miss real life connections, it can lead to think poorly about themselves, and it gives them a feeling that they have a lot of true friends on social media when in fact they don’t. Technology seems to be connecting us but it’s separating and isolating us more than it’s doing any form of good.…
She first introduces the reason why parents don’t want early tech use as part of their kids learning environment, “…watching too much TV can lead to obesity, violence and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.” To a parent, the biggest fear is to see your kid have an emotional breakdown caused by social media, also getting health issues from being stuck to a monitor rather than having physical activity. She effortlessly gets rid of those fears, “new research suggests that social-networking sites also offer unprecedented learning opportunities.” An anthropologist, from the University of California, believes that “Online, kids can engage with specialized communities of interest.” Technology has now given students the opportunity to magnify their brain techniques with tech use, furthermore expanding their knowledge with no limitations.…
The interactions with others, behaviour, and personal health, all have been affected because of the distractedness of social media. In the journal article Distracted by Raymond Gozzi, he mentions why teens use electronic devices: “They use electronic contracts to avoid face-to-face interactions. It is easier to text someone a short message, and get texts back, than to actually talk to them” (Gozzi 111). Through the use of social media, people can pick and choose what they want to involve themselves in, whether it be conversations, events, etc. By avoiding face-to-face interactions, they begin to lack the social skills necessary in life.…
Society is gradually moving from a pen and paper to a hand holding a cell phone. Today 's generation connects with their family members and peers through text messaging and social media. Social media includes platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and other websites used for blogging and posting pictures. We live in a tech-savvy world filled with cell phones, televisions, laptops, tablets and many other technological inventions. Due to the abundance of social media use among teenagers, teens are able to connect with people in their community, are able to explore and expand their interests, and are susceptible to poor self perception and a low self esteem.…