HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Collegehumor, Canada Pension Plan, Asexuality
8 Dec 2013
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Feminist theories: gender defines social interaction and life experiences, feminist theories have addressed issues such as widowhood, home care, care-giving, life assault, elder abuse, retirement, poverty, feminzation of aging . Looks at shared moral assumptions held by members of society. How values like justice and fairness affect social policies. Social consensus-generational issues, pensions, health care, taxes. Cohorts cohort includes all individuals born within the same period of time (age or birth) or who enter a system at the same time e. g. baby boom cohort between 1946 and 1966. Results from comparisons of people who are different ages at the same moment in time. Differences resulting from measures having been taken at different time periods effects on all. Age effect: the effect of a time period on an individual depends on how old the person is when he or she experiences that period. Cohort effect older people did not grow up with computers.
