Sociology 0011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sept, Intersectionality, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 0011A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lin

Document Summary

General orientation to family ties and aging. Diversity & inequality (intersecting structured social relations) Life course perspective links the experiences of later life to earlier life stages and of old family members to younger ones. Life stages and linked lives: core life course principles related to family ties. 3 types of effects: age effect: consequence of growing older, period effect: environmental influences that affect people in different birth cohorts at one point in time. Ex: sept 11 and the great depression: cohort effect: consequences of being born into specific cohort (sharing common experiences) Human agency: individuals build biographies through choices and decisions. Agency-within-structure (settersten): constraints and opportunities of available options. Macro-micro link: between social, political, and economic forces and individual experience over time. Meso level: social institutions (social spaces) in which we live our lives (family) Life stage principle: impact of transitions of individual lives varies by: Linked lives: connections with others and reciprocal influences of interdependent lives.