HLTHAGE 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Inequality, Fourth Age, Intersectionality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 3D03
• Professor: Yvonne Leblanc

Document Summary

Aging as an embodied social and personal process theories of and on embodied aging part 1. Negative view associated with decay or reduced capabilities; physical evidence of bodily decline. Primary focus on bodily transitions rather than other aspects of aging. Christian and (ebrew scriptures: discussed (cid:494) wisdom and suffering associated with gray hairs(cid:499) (cid:523)bengston et al. , 2009:6(cid:524) Work of aristotle: (cid:498)youth being hot and moist and old age being cold and dry(cid:499) (cid:498)adaptive niche[s](cid:499) (cid:523)ibid:6(cid:524) Aging process based on one(cid:495)s adaptive features and placement within hierarchy (bengston et al. , 2009:6) People survive or do not survive due to natural selection and creation of. Key theorists include darwin and other evolutionary biologists. Focus on why and what factors contribute to rates of aging, as well as why some people age aster than others (as well as rates of longevity and mortality)