UNDERSTAND THE ASPECTS AND DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

What was it like to grow up during your childhood? Did individuals around you, historical events, and cultural shifts in your environment affect your evolution? Did the people and events around you shape your life in a profound way, including the values and/or views you hold? Did the era in which you grew up impact your ideas about education, work, money, and family and subsequently alter your lifeàtrajectory? Do you think those who had different experiences growing up have any significant differences in their evolution, values, views, ideas, education, work, money, or family? These are important questions to ask yourself as you attempt to understand the key concepts of the life course perspective. For this Discussion, you identify your cohort group and analyze the major themes that have shaped your own life course.

LEARNING RESOURCES 

Required Readings

Hutchison, E. D. (2019). Dimensions of human behavior: The changing life course (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.     

Chapter 1, `Life Course Perspective(pp. 1ò)

McGoldrick, M., & Shibusawa, T. (2012). The family life cycle Download The family life cycle. In F. Walsh (Ed.), Normal family processes: Growing diversity and complexity (4th ed., pp. 375ù8). New York, NY: Guildford Press.
Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity, 3rd Edition, by Walsh, F. Copyright 2002 by Guilford Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Guilford Publications, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

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• Green, C.D. (2011, August 2). Tracing family traits using a genogramLinks to an external site. [Slide presentation]. Retrieved from http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/e..

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Identify a cohort group that is similar to your own group.
Describe the characteristics of the cohort group you have identified as similar to your own.
Describe the major themes that have shaped your own life course perspective including transitions, life events, trajectories, and turning points.
Describe the surprises and changes that have been a part of your life journey to date.