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Traditions in Transition: Adolescents Remaking Culture
Author(s) -
LeVine Robert A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01205.x
Subject(s) - sociology , intersection (aeronautics) , culture change , cultural studies , epistemology , social science , social psychology , psychology , anthropology , philosophy , geography , cartography
This article proposes a cohort‐based theoretical model of understanding adolescence as a key moment in the intersection of individual and cultural change. Drawing on work from anthropology, psychology, and sociology, adolescence is shown to be a critical time for examining the proximate interactions of individuals with the cultural models and norms transmitted to them in the re‐creation of new generational norms and practices. Examples are provided from K enya, M exico, and N epal as well as the U nited S tates. This kind of psychocultural research contributes to policy, practice, and theory regarding both adolescence and cultural change.