Check out the image.
By the way, if you don’t, you are a retard.
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January 1st, 2008 at 5:00 am
Is it bad that I mostly ignored the trite story and spent most of the ten seconds I looked at that picture trying to find familiar constellations in the fourth panel?
January 1st, 2008 at 5:16 am
Yes.
January 1st, 2008 at 5:38 am
Interesting to me (and maybe to some others “departing” from the social clock) in this regard, would like to read that, unfortunately no suscription.
The timing of major life events: effects of departing from the social clock.Rook KS, Catalano R, Dooley D.
Program in Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine 92717.
It is widely believed that social norms govern the timing of major life events, such that events experienced off time are considerably more stressful than events experienced on time. Experiencing life events either earlier or later than one’s peers presumably reduces opportunities for social support and may also invite social disapproval. Relatively few empirical studies have investigated these ideas, however, and those that have suffer from several limitations. The present study made use of a general population survey to investigate the effects of normative versus nonnormative timing of major life events on psychological functioning, interpersonal resources, and interpersonal tensions. Desirable and undesirable events were examined separately, as were the effects of departures from perceived versus statistical age norms. The results of the study offered only limited support for social clock theory. Implications for further research and for the relevance of the theory in a less age-differentiated society are discussed.
January 1st, 2008 at 8:56 am
“reduces opportunities for social support and may also invite social disapproval”
Eh. I don’t really care about those sorts of things any more. The few times I have tried to use my age peers as guidelines for life events, I’ve realized afterwards that I made a foolish choice.
What “social clock” are you departing from, Bettina?
January 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
““reduces opportunities for social support and may also invite social disapproval”
Eh. I don’t really care about those sorts of things any more.”
I do not care about these things, either, but you may want to understand how much “interpersonal tension” is created when you co-students call you “Ma’m” and empty a seat for you in the library or pitifully ask you whether they can help you with anything. This being said, I’m personally departing from the perceived age-norm of being a graduate student, more so back in psychology, where I was among the oldest students.
I believe that the results of the study which I linked above call for a slight departure from the social clock theory as a classic stage model towards a more individualized, less linear perspective, “allowing” some detours or shortcuts or cul-de-sacs.