status of adolescents
Broader Term: adolescence, adulthood, and old age30 DocumentsScope Note
Cultural definition of adolescence (e.g., age limits); beliefs and attitudes about adolescents; prerogatives and disabilities of adolescents; relaxing or tightening of social control for each gender; residence shifts at puberty (e.g., removal of boys to men's house or to home of grandparent or maternal uncle); readjustment of social relationships; etc.