USI Ch 5, 9, 10, 11 Flashcards
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What is significant about Margaret Laurence’s use of the word middling?
- describes the privilege people have when they are middle aged
- sounds like meddling
- contempt for those who occupy a more privileged status because of their age
How are older people seen as less valuable by society?
- seen as unable to work for pay or raise families
- youthfulness is beautiful and desirable
What is age inequality like in many developing countries?
-less extreme often because those who’re poor will die before they become old
Define neoliberalism
- philosophy that market exchange is one ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action
- state interventions are minimized
What was the only social program that withstood Canada’s shift to neoliberalism in the 1990s?
-CPP
What age discrimination is happening in China?
-over 25 graduating from university are seen as too old to hire
Who began a development of age stratification theory?
-Leonard Cain and Bernice Neugarten
Who was responsible for the formalization of age stratification theory?
-Matilda White
What new type of age stratification theory is emerging?
-aging and society paradigm
Explain age stratification theory as theorized by Riley
- process and structure
- similar-aged individuals form strata based on biological age or life stages
- marker for appropriate age related behaviour
Define age strata
- stratification of societies via age and the associated rite of passage
- assumes there are sets of roles and responsibilities attached to age stratum
What are structures in Riley’s definition of age stratification?
-social institutions or social roles
What are the elements of how people and roles are differentiated by age structure according to Riley?
Age; strata, related acts, structure of roles, related expectations
What are the fundamental processes of age stratification theory?
-cohort flow
-individual aging
-allocation
socialization
What is the aging process conceptualized as?
-biopsychosocial process
Define allocation
-individuals are assigned and reassigned social roles
Define socialization
- individuals learn to engage in appropriate social roles
- learning and conforming to normative rules and behaviour
How did Riley differentiate issues related to aging from those related to cohort succession?
- developed another conceptual scheme that incorporates time
- as cohorts age they move through time and through age strata
- differences in age strata reflect a culmination of individual aging and different patterns of cohort composition
Define diachronic
-changing, in reference to states
Define cohorts
-aggregates of individuals who’re born in the same time interval
Define structural lag and give an example
- gap between the activities individuals do and the ability of structures to adapt to people
- institutional arrangements need to be modified to catch up with human behaviour
- women’s labour participation vs. family responsibilities
What is life course fallacy?
-assumption that cross-sectional age differences capture the process of aging
What is the cohort centrism?
-the error of assuming that other cohorts age in the same as one’s own
What is age reification?
-treats chronological age as the most important variable for age and the life course