AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The social clock is a culturally defined timeline for social milestones. Think first job, marriage, having a child, graduating from college, buying a home, retiring, etc. How is this impactful? The research shows people who fall in line with the social clock have less negative impact than those who don’t.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is the concept known as the “social clock, ” and how does it relate to the transition from adolescence to adulthood? The “social clock, ” is the culturally preferred time of social events. The social events are milestones reached between adolescence and adulthood.

Detailed explanation-3: -The social clock affects people’s life choices by making them try to comply with the cultural timeline and social milestones expected in their society. Norms and timelines within the social clock are both conscious and unconscious.

Detailed explanation-4: -Differing from biological clocks that have a neural origin, social clocks are largely determined by the culture in which we live. Neugarten proposed that we internalize our culture’s social clock and use it to compare with our peers in order to determine our position in the ‘expected life cycle’ (Greene, 2003).