SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pew Research Center, Gerontology, Nuclear Family
Document Summary
Age and the elderly: super-centenarians are people living to 110 years or more, centenarians are people living to be 100 years old, and they are approximately. In 2010, there were about 80,000 centenarians in the united states alone. Aging in society: many media portrayals of the elderly reflect negative cultural attitudes toward aging. In the united states, society tends to glorify youth and associate it with beauty and sexuality. Soc 1: because of their specialization, social gerontologists are in a strong position to advocate for older adults. Multigenerational families: multigenerational u. s. families began to decline after world war ii, and their numbers reached a low point around 1980, but they are on the rise again. Studying aging populations: statisticians use data to calculate the median age of a population, that is, the number that marks the halfway point in a group"s age range.
