SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Erik Erikson, Kid A
13 Oct 2018
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Opportunities for change in aging society: longevity, education and training, later retirement, semi-retirement, low fertility. Sociologists answer to this: the flexible life course is in many ways the ideal way to accommodate the problems women today have in balancing family and work concerns. Older adults ; integrity vs. despair: middle-aged adults ; generativity vs. stagnation. Tendencies: co-residence and home-leaving, the return of adult children to the parental home, support for older parents, intergenerational ambivalence. Younger adults from 20 to 24 years old are more likely to have delayed the transition from their parental home than older adults from 25 to 29 years old. In 2011, over half of all young adults from 20 to 24 years old lived with their parents (63. 3% of young men and 55. 2% of young women) A significantly lower percentage of men and women lived in their parental home between the ages of 25 and 29 (29. 6% of men and 20. 9% of women. )
