Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Activity Theory, Ballroom Dance, Cherryhill Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Dr. Stephen Lin

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Lecture 4 note theoretical perspectives of aging. Theoretical approach: theoretical perspectives are ways of naming, ways of conceptually ordering our senses of the world. They are tools with which we decide what it is that we experience, why something is the way it is, and how it is that we might act or react to it. (stephen pfohl, Macro, meso, micro level of analysis: meso-level of analysis, this is the middle level. It goes beyond the individual"s perception, experiences, and interactions with others (micro), but it is below the structured discussions (macro: we can talk about the meso-level in terms of social institutions. At the micro-level it is about the individual interactions and interpersonal ties, and at the meso-level it is about analyzing these things as a group. Interactive framework: macro affects meso which affects micro, this is how structures affect social institutions and individuals.