SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elder Abuse, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Activity Theory
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Aging - the physical, psychological, and social processes associated with growing older. Life expectancy - the average length of time a group born around the same time and in the same life conditions can expect to live. Social gerontologists -the study of the social aspects of aging. Ageism - prejudice and discrimination against the elderly. Age stratification - the distribution of resources (wealth, status, power) based on life course position. Gerontocracies - societies where the eldest hold the most power. The greying of canada (industrialized societies) the cohort of 65+ is growing twice as fast as the population as a whole by 2031: 24% of the population will be over 65. Challenges of growing old physical finding meaning social isolation income retirement - first national pension system: germany, 1889; canada: 1927 - old age pension. Advertising shows young people at their best and most beautiful, but it shows older people at their worst.
