it generally refers to a period ranging from age 12 or 13 through age 19 or 21.

Although its beginning is often balanced with the beginning of puberty,

adolescence is characterized by psychological and social stages as well as by

Adolescence can be prolonged, brief, or virtually nonexistent, depending

on the type of culture in which it occurs. In societies that are simple, for

example, the transition from childhood to adulthood tends to occur rather

rapidly, and is marked by traditionally prescribed passage rites. to contrast

this, American and European societies the transition period for young people has

been steadily lengthening over the past 100 years, giving rise to an adolescent

subculture. As a result of this prolonged transitional stage a variety of

problems and concerns specifically associated with this age group have developed.

Psychologists single out four areas that especially touch upon adolescent

people with education as their sole occupation. Inevitably, this has isolated

people with parents whose guidance is firm, consistent, and rational tend to

neurosis. Psychologists who have different beliefs place less emphasis on the

Psychologists also disagree about the causes and significance of the

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sorts can be observed, including alcohol and drug abuse.

period occurs from ages ten and one-half to thirteen. Time is not the only

transition from their world to the larger world. The conflict that sometimes

and slow down by age 16. This period is marked by the enlargement of the testes,

transition. Anthropologists have noted that in less developed cultures the

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