SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stanford University Press, Old Age, Pension
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Older people used to be treated with more respect. Old people get more respect and better treatment in less developed, more traditional. In the past, children took better care of their parents societies. These popular ideas were the source of a famous social science hypothesis: The modernization hypothesis theoretical justification that we do not need the old, we have better resources today, old people do not have power we need, their knowledge is old. The more modernized the society, the worse is the status of the elderly. Arguments linked to lenski et al. notions- maybe older people"s knowledge out-dated with a more technologically advanced society . Before discussing this hypothesis we need to clarify its two key variables: Equate modernization with lenski et al"s core technology model. Status of the elderly: this is really a number of variables including: these are all interpretations of the term status and they are all important these all matter.
