Sociology 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Age Segregation
12 Jan 2017
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Family ties in old age are the culmination of a lifetime of decisions made, roads taken and not taken, and changing times and social worlds. Individuals don"t necessarily share uniform experiences of family ties: comparisons across time require us to consider the impact of both continuity and change from the vantage point of different family members. We must be cautious with social support for the elderly: we must avoid blaming the victim, the balance of meeting challenges of aging and family life as private trouble vs. public issue. Meso-level analysis: the family structure include. Size number of generations, age of childbirth. Gender composition: family structure creates variable circumstances for individuals to negotiate in their relationships with one another. Increasing number of foreign born due to immigration. Most elderly individuals have intra and intergenerational ties. Significant gender differences in martial status of the elderly: widowhood rate is higher for women.
