INT 901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Baby Boomers, Geriatrics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Interdisciplinary Studies
• Course: INT 901
• Professor: Raza Mirza

Document Summary

: explore & understand dynamic interactions among social processes, institutions, systems, & personal histories across one"s life course. : observe & interpret how individual & societal events produce variations between people & birth cohorts. : allows for interpretation of differences across cultural and political spheres that influence individual"s lifestyle, beliefs, and life choices. Group of people born at same historical period. Understand how particular histories & social structures influence lives of various birth cohorts. Individual agency is another component of life course perspective: variations in how people react to social forces & respond to social structures, rooted in agency, process of making choices & taking action in context of one"s life. Aging processes include chronological, biological, psychological, & social- aging. Interact to influence how individuals & groups experience aging: help explain diversity in older population, eg: 61 yr old woman with stroke and physically unable to work with depression, different negative impacts.