Adolescents and their bad companies: lunatics, criminals, and sexual perverts [on Stanley Hall’s adolescence]
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n2p739Abstract
Abstract
In the last two decades of the 19th century, in the United States, attentions are focused on the child, both in relation to the studies on childhood – that resulted in the institutionalization of a new field of research, the “child study” – and the practices of socialization – which included the so-called “kindergarten movement”. At the turn of the century, seminal works about teenagers and teen years begin to be published, both in relation to the subject and to the disciplines that have emerged or consolidated in the academic field, such as: Sociology and Anthropology, in the first case, and Psychology, in the second.This phenomenon is particularly visible in the United States, where associations between adolescence and crime are flagrant, as well as the references to the work of G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, first published in 1904, and considered matrix of future research within the social and psychological studies. Even though they contributed to smudge the myth of immaculate child, the Hall’s experiments with children haven´t reached to align them with the impish; however, the adolescent of Hall came to light accompanied by the "primitive" and "savage", as well as the criminals, lunatics, and sexually dysfunctional, i.e. the adolescence as psychosocial concept was born referred to lowest groups in evolutionary scale.. Hall explains the entire adolescence on the basis of the theory of recapitulation, both their physiological development and intellectual and social growth.
Keywords:Adolescence. Adolescent. G. Stanley Hall.
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