Why are adolescence and adolescents of great interest to social scientists?

answer:

i'm only 13 i thought i would know but i don't i'm sorry

Explanation:

Many adolescent risk behaviors—particularly poor driving, either with or without concomitant use of alcohol or illicit substances, and crime—also put others at risk, and all of these factors together make the prevention of risk behaviors in adolescence an important public health issue.

to stay where they were until m sent for

it depends on which society you are referring to. many civilization performed rituals so the gods would with their growing season but the most well known is that of the aztecs. they would make sacrifices, usually animals, but sometimes humans as well.