After reading the book A Tribe Apart, I was able to notice many similarities between what the adolescents in the book were going through and what we have read in Santrock and heard in lecture.
             In Chapter 2 and 8 we meet Jessica Jones, a thirteen-year-old girl who has recently gone through some dramatic changes at home, as well as growing up in general. Jessica is a typical teenage girl, very active in activities, has friends, has goals for her self and so on. At the beginning of the chapter she says "her mother has finally stopped lecturing her on how she ought to use her desk for homework." This is evident in the theory of Parent-Adolescent Conflict. According to Santrock, "much of the conflict involves the everyday events of family life, such as keeping a bedroom clean, dressing neatly, getting home at a certain time, not talking on the phone forever, and so on." (Santrock, 159) This would explain the constant arguments about her messy room, grades, and so on. Since her older sister has recently had a baby there have been some major changes in the household. Jessica feels that her sister and her don't really talk anymore, because her sister is too busy. According to Santrock, "both younger and older adolescent siblings viewed older siblings as sources of social support for social and scholastic activities." (Santrock, 167) This is definitely impacting Jessica, because she feels that she can't go talk to her about whatever problems she might have and so on so that saddens her. Jessica is in eighth grade now, which makes her "the top dog of the school." She describes it as the seventh graders are still walking around in a daze, and the eighth graders walk around, full of them selves. This is commonly referred to as the top-dog phenomenon, in which "the circumstances of moving from the top position to the lowest position." (Santrock, 228) This was true of Jes...