HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Disengagement Theory, Activity Theory, Acculturation

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1BB3
• Professor: Jessica Gish

Document Summary

Describes how society operates and what society is made of. Ofers explanaions about the relaionship between individual people and social stuf. Society = interacions between individuals and groups. People assemble or order the social world. People assign meaning to things or symbols. People are creaive actors with the ability to interpret or construct meaning. How people individually experience and understand their social worlds. The meanings or values people assign to their social worlds. How the social context of people"s lives shapes the construcion, interpretaion, and meaning that people assign to their lives and acions. Focuses on the non-measurable aspects of human behaviour. Collects informaion about the meaning and personal understanding that people apply to their lives. Methods include: interviews, focus groups, ethnography, document analysis, life stories/narraive analysis. Focuses on the measurementof human behaviour using social staisics. Staisical data is collected using surveys or quesionnaires with numerical scales. Methods include: experiments or lab tests, surveys, secondary data-analysis.