FRHD 3060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cohort Analysis, Social Stratification, Generation Gap
20 Oct 2016
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Week 4: age structures and the life course. Adults who had just entered or were about to enter the labour force during the depression of the 1930s. People who were children of this depression generation; many became parents of baby boomers. The large baby boom generation born in the years following wwii. Children of the baby boomers, who were born after 1970 and variously la(cid:271)elled i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)s as (cid:862)ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)atio(cid:374) x(cid:863), (cid:862)t(cid:449)e(cid:374)t(cid:455) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)gs(cid:863) This group will become a one-generation family consisting of older adults with no children. Ascriptive age norms rules and constraints determined for a specific chronological age e. g. voting at 18. Consensual age norms provide an approximate age range in which specific roles or behaviour are appropriate or should be give up e. g. leaving home, having children, retiring. Age norms for older people often refer to behaviour that should be avoided at a particular age e. g. dating, wearing certain clothes.
