PSY BEH 113D Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Terror Management Theory, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Ageism
13 Jan 2020
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According to the life course perspective, norms, roles, and attitudes about age have an impact on the shape of each person"s life. Attention on powerful connection between individual lives and the historical and socioeconomic context in which these individuals unfold. Social clock: expectations for the ages at which a society associates with major life events. On-time events usually are easier to cope with than off-time events (even. Life course vs life span positive events) Life-span refers to duration of life and characteristics that are closely related to age but that vary little across time and place. Life course perspective elaborates on the importance of time, context, process, and meaning on human development and family life. Development is affected by processes at multiple levels. Microsystem: settings in which the individual participates directly; activities, interpersonal relations, and social roles of developing person. Mesosystem: linkages between settings that individual is directly involved in (e. g. , home and school = pta)
