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Aging as a Social Process Flashcards

1
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The extent to which a population age structure is distributing towards older ages

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Population aging

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The scientific study of the aging process

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Gerontology

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What are the 2 main causes of population aging?

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  1. Mortality rate decrease
  2. Fertility rate decrease
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3
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The average number of years a person is expected to live a birth

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Life expectancy

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What might cause life expectancy to increase?

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Better sanitation, public health, and health care

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5
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Who has a higher life expectancy? Women or men?

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Women at 84 and men at 80

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6
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The amount of kids people are having. Measure by # infants per 1000 population

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Fertility rate

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7
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The population will rapidly age until ___ then level off

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2031

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8
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Overstating the negative effects of demographic trends for society

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Apocalyptic demography

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9
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What are 5 aspects of individual aging?

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  1. Chronological
  2. Biological
  3. Psychological
  4. Social
  5. Subjective age identity
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10
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Defines legal age

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Chronological aging

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Passage of calendar time from one birthday to next.

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Chronological aging

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Changes in cellular, muscular/skeletal, neural, cardiovascular, sensory systems

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Biological aging

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Biological aging can influence

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The number of years someone is likely to survive

The extent to which someone is to experience illness or disability

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14
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Changes in learning ability, memory, creativity

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Psychological aging

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15
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Psychological aging impacts the interaction of ______ and __________ changes with social and environmental factors

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Cognitive, behavioural

16
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Changes in social roles and relationships

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Social aging

17
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How people feel compared to their chronological age

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Subjective age

18
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An example of chronological, biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging interacting would be

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decline in vision—biological change—may lead to inability to read or drive car, thereby restricting a person’s mobility, independence, and social interaction.

19
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How can aging and social status change between different cultures and times?

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Some cultures might see old age as a high-status, and respected thing, while some cultures see aging as a burden, and older people are less valued

20
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Viewing aging as an illness or disease is an example of

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Medicalization of aging

21
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Framing of problems that result from social relations as merely “the way things are”

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Naturalization

22
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Used to explain individual changes that take place over time, age-related and socially recognized life transitions, and the interaction of social life, history, culture, and personal biography

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Life course perspective

23
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What are the two organizing concepts of the life course perspective?

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  1. Transitions
  2. Trajectories
24
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Graduating from college is known (in the life course perspective) as a

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Transition

25
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Employment history is known (in the life course perspective) as a

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Trajectory

26
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The 5 principles of the life course perspective are

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  1. Human development and aging are lifelong processes
  2. Individuals make choices within the opportunities and constraints of history and social circumstances
  3. Individuals are embedded in historical time and place.
  4. The timing of events matters.
  5. Lives are linked interdependently.
27
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What are the 3 levels of sociology

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  1. Micro
  2. Meso
  3. Macro
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Sociology focusing on individuals is a ____ analysis

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Micro

29
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Sociology focusing on Groups is a ____ analysis

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Meso

30
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Sociology focusing on Structures and Institutions is a ____ analysis

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Macro

31
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The ability of individuals to make decisions in their own life that affect life experiences

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Agency

32
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Social structure and race, gender, ethnicity etc. impacting life experiences and opportunities

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Social structure

33
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Why should we study the aging process?

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To understand diversity in aging experiences

To eliminate myths about aging

34
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How is lifespan and life expectancy different?

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Lifespan: The maximum limit of survival for a species

Life expectancy: Average number of years a person is predicted to live

35
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What needs to happen to ensure stability as we move towards a period where a large portion of Canada’s population is elderly?

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Investments into health and community care

36
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What sets the future cohort of the elderly population apart from previous ones?

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More active, social, educated, functional

37
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How different individual or societal events create variations in the aging process

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Life course perspective

38
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How isn’t “age identity” just a number?

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it isn’t about how old someone is, but rather the psychological and social aspects to aging as well

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