HLTHAGE 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Psychology, Structural Functionalism
8 Feb 2017
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The three theories (all come from structural functionalism) Disengagement: older people should disengage from society, so that the younger generation can replenish society (macro) Activity: older adults should continue in their roles and activities, take on new ones if they have to. Continuity: things in your life/ past that were meaningful to you, should be continued (micro) Functionalism: society is based off of looking at society as a collective- this paradigm is coined by. Conflict paradigm-society has limits resources, and tensions within the system and inequality. Feminist perspective (there are different types of feminist (liberal, social, radical) Ecological models: there should be a balance between people and their environment. Modern theory; older adults are seen as less valuable. Age stratification: looks at cohorts and assigns them a hierarchy. Transitions: particular changes in roles in your life trajectory: things that change your life path (made up of multiple patterns: education. Probably a question about migration on the test (trajectory and transition)
