SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Medical Model, Ableism, Baby Boom
24 Mar 2018
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A specialized eld of gerontology that examines the social and sociological aspects of aging. Ideas of how ones social environments and age norms effect one. How we age, how we understand the elderly, varies over time and across cultures. Aging includes physical, emotional, psychological and social changes - able to lose status. North american culture privileges youth and encourage ageism. Face the silver ceiling - issues of ageism in the workplace. Understood as vulnerable and infantilized (treated like children) A cohort: a group of people who share a statistical or demographic trait. A generation: people who have experiences similar historical events at similar points in their lives. At height of boom, canadian women were averaging 3. 7 children. Peaked in 1959 with 479000 new babies. Front end boomer men were earning 30% more than their fathers by the age of 30 (not even spread across society) Boomers began to turn 65 in 2011 - impact on how we imagine aging.
