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  • To understand the pattern of development, certain fundamental and predictable facts must be taken into consideration. Each of these facts has important implications, which are explained in the following pages.

    Early Foundations Are Critical

    The first significant fact about development ...

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  • Because developmental tasks play such an important role in setting guidelines for normal development, anything that interferes with their mastery may be regarded as a potential hazard. There are three very common potential hazards related to developmental tasks. The first ...

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  • Having known, since early adolescence, the important role appearance plays in social judgements, social acceptance, and leadership, middle-aged people rebel against threats to the status they fear they may lose as their appearance deteriorates.

    For the man, there is the ...

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  • The success of marriage is reflected in a number of interpersonal relationships and behaviour patterns. While these may vary, to some extent, for different people and for marriages at different ages, they can, for the most part, be used to ...

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  • Just as the ever-increasing number of vocational opportunities makes vocational selection and adjustment difficult, so does the ever-increasing number of family patterns make marital adjustment difficult. This difficulty is increased when one spouse has grown up in a family where ...

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  • There are two characteristics of the life span today that distinguish it from the pattern that existed several generations ago. First, the heavy preponderance of young people no longer exists. Instead, as more and young people no longer exists. Instead ...

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  • Ethnic Groups in the Philippines

    Ethnic groups in the Philippines are classified according to certain physical, cultural, linguistic, religious and geographic criteria.

    A. According to distinctive physical traits

    1. The Negritoes who are regarded as the aborigines of the Philippines
    2. The ...

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  • Theories of Prejudice

    Light (1985) gives the following explanations on the origin of prejudice:

    1. Economic theory – assumes that racial prejudice is a social attitude transmitted by the dominant ethnic majority class for the purpose of stigmatizing some groups as ...

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  • Social Consequences of Membership in Racial and Ethnic Groups

    In many societies throughout the world, membership in racial and ethnic groups influences people’s social status and roles as they interact with others. Physical characteristics, especially skin color and certain distinctive ...

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  • The classification of people into races and ethnic groups carries deep implications on the social and political life of different racial and ethnic groups. Such classification of racial and ethnic categories have held severe consequences for some groups while elevating ...

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