SOCI 335 Lecture 1: SOCI335 September 9th
9 Mar 2016
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A group of people who were born around the same time, who share common characteristics and who have gone through a particular set of experiences. A group of people who went through particular events (for example, nine eleven, the economic recession, etc. , or even the non-event of a war) We are a social group that is held together in a particular way. Diabetes: an age effect because any cohort can experience it depending on their age, but can also be considered a cohort effect because the likelihood of having diabetes has shifted over successive generations because of new technologies. : the sexual revolution generation was affected by the revolution, because they internalized certain ideas regarding sexuality. Age graded ladder of achievement : there is a particular socially defined trajectory of things that a person is supposed to achieve at particular ages in their lives.
