SOC102H1 Lecture : Tuesday October 18.docx
Document Summary
Age groups have no permanent distinguishing features- everyone starts young and becomes old. Age differentiation requires a lot of cultural socialization into: Self-awareness of age differences- age consciousness- will be hard to establish and maintain. Sociologist are concerned with age norms or as they are sometimes called agesets. Age sets define the social status, permitted roles and activities of people belonging to them. Transitions from one ageset to the next are often major social events. Age stratification is a system of inequalities linked to age, often associated with age sets. Age stratification theory is also concerned with how societies with how societies experience aging. Age is social category there are difference in where aging and old age or viewed positively or negatively. People of different ages like people of different genders live in different social worlds.
