perinatal period

(adjective)

Of or pertaining to the time around birth.

Related Terms

Examples of perinatal period in the following topics:

  • HIV and AIDS

    • The three main transmission routes of HIV are sexual contact, exposure to infected body fluids or tissues, and from mother to fetus during the perinatal period.

  • Fads

    • A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically.

  • Economic Sociology

    • The field of economic sociology can be broadly divided into a classical period and a contemporary period.
    • The classical period was concerned particularly with modernity and its phenomenological progeny, such as rationalization, secularization, urbanization, and social stratification.
    • Max Weber's book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is the archetypical representation of the works of economic sociology's classical period .
    • Examine the two periods of economic sociology - classical and contemporary - and the difference between economic sociology and socioeconomics

  • Dividing the lifespan

    • These divisions are somewhat arbitrary, but generally capture periods of life that reflect a certain degree of similarity.

  • Dimensions of Human Development

    • The embryonic period in humans begins at fertilization and from birth until the first year, the child is referred to as an infant.
    • Adolescence is the period of life between the onset of puberty and the full commitment to an adult social role.
    • Middle adulthood generally refers to the period between ages 40 to 60.
    • During this period, middle-aged adults experience a conflict between generativity and stagnation.

  • Adolescence

    • Adolescence is a period of significant cognitive, physical and social development, including changes in family and peer relationships.
    • Though the period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage years, chronological age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have found it difficult to agree upon a precise definition.
    • Within all of these disciplines, adolescence is viewed as a transitional period between childhood with the purpose of preparing children for adult roles.
    • Peer groups are especially important during adolescence, a period of development characterized by a dramatic increase in time spent with peers and a decrease in adult supervision.
    • While adolescents may engage in casual sexual encounters (often referred to as hookups in the United States), most sexual experience during this period of development takes place within romantic relationships.

  • Culture Shock

    • This period is full of observations and new discoveries.
    • Like most honeymoon periods, this stage eventually ends.
    • Still, the most important change in the period is communication.

  • Deprivation and Development

    • As they develop, humans pass through critical periods, or windows of time during which they need to experience particular environmental stimuli in order to develop properly.
    • But when individuals experience social deprivation, they miss those critical periods.
    • Feral children provide an example of the effects of severe social deprivation during critical developmental periods.

  • Stages of Socialization Throughout the Life Span

    • Context: In earlier periods, the socializee (the person being socialized) more clearly assumes the status of learner within the context of the initial setting (which may be a family of orientation, an orphanage, a period of homelessness, or any other initial social groups at the beginning of a child's life), the school (or other educational context), or the peer group.
    • Also, relationships in the earlier period are more likely to be affectively charged, i.e., highly emotional.

  • Feral Children

    • The impaired ability to learn language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning at an early age, and is taken as evidence in favor of the critical period hypothesis.
    • It is theorized that if language is not developed, at least to a degree, during this critical period, a child can never reach his or her full language potential.