In the USA, for example, the life stages are commonly identified as: prenatal stage (from conception until birth); infancy (from birth to the end of the second year of life); early childhood (ages three to six years); middle childhood (six years until puberty); adolescence (start of puberty to adulthood); young adulthood (ages twenty to forty); middle adulthood (ages forty to sixty-five); and later adulthood or old age (sixty-five and older).
I am continually attempting to convince collaborators that 10-year age brackets are meaningless in cultural research.
If you would like to collaborate in a research project to investigate age group categories across cultures, please contact me.
Draft plan: Cross-Cultural Categories in Age Grouping Project
- Literature review and online discussion.
- Online consortium to discuss a research plan and process.
- Study 1: Do differences exist between cultures as to propensity to respond to listing actual age as opposed to selecting an age group.
- Potential journal article for you relating to your culture.
- If response rates favouring selection from groups are observed for all or some cultures, conduct an in-depth analysis and definition(s) of how age groups are defined generally and specifically across cultures.
- Potential journal article relating a culture to others.
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Romie F. Littrell, BA, MBA,PhD, FIAIR, An fánaí fiáin
AUT Business School N.Z.,
romie.littrell@aut.ac.nzhttp://www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/Facilitator, Leadership & Management in Sub-Sahara Africa Conferences
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