Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Japanese Americans, Dementia, Social Exchange Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Maria Savundranayagam

Document Summary

Usually family and friends: other things that affect you as you get older, marco level policies, look at the interrelationships between these levels. According to the life course perspective, norms, roles, and attitudes about age help to shape the person"s life. It is longitude; looks at what happens to a person over time. Starting off as a baby and further onto older adulthood. One of the things that affect them are the norms, which are the kind of expectations that is influenced by. All of these things will be changing as you get other. The social clock = feeling that when i am 17/18, i need to go to university and then. When i am 21/22, i have to finish university and need to go to graduate school or get a job : usually following specific guidelines/norms, we are guided by these social clocks.