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Re: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: What Is It About 20-Somethings?
My take on Arnett's and other's proposal - that there is "developing
adult" developmental stage - analogous, as the article describes, to
the discovery of the developmental stage "adolescence" by Stanley Hall
in 1904 - is that this is the beginning of extending developmental
psychology as a discipline into the study of adulthood, which is long
overdue. Here, as in many other places, CHAT has marvelous
opportunities to shed light. My own thinking is that adults, like
children, also have their "stages" of development, although not the
kind of rigid stages that Richard Lerner describes. Page 8, where
Lerner is quoted to counterbalance Arnett, is not a bad place to begin
the article, for those wanting to browse. Says Lerner: “The core idea
of classical stage theory is that all people — underscore ‘all’ — pass
through a series of qualitatively different periods in an invariant
and universal sequence in stages that can’t be skipped or
reordered ...” I think CHAT can come up with a better way of
understanding adult development than that ...
- Steve
On Aug 29, 2010, at 1:10 PM, mike cole wrote:
This article takes up transition to adulthood. Among the things that
I found
interesting in it was Lerner's position on stages. Reminiscent of
Tolman's
argument with Lerner in his article. Lerner is the "mr
contextualist" of
developmental psychology, which really makes his arguments about
stages
contradictory to me.
and you?
mike
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* What Is It About 20-Somethings?
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By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
They move back in with their parents. They delay beginning careers.
Why are
so many young people taking so long to grow up?
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