SOC 2390 Lecture Notes - Insurance Fraud, Jack Kevorkian, Ageism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2390
• Professor: Michael A Dixon

Document Summary

It is a determinant of how education, jobs, and other scarce resources and opportunities are allocated in society: age stratification also limits roles and opportunities. People automatically assume that at age fourteen, a person should be in school; that at age thirty, a person should be married; and that at age sixty-five, a person should retire from full-time employment. Such perceptions about age may create problems for people in all age categories, but the problems typically are most pronounced among older people. Social security crisis: social security is the only source of income for about half of retired people and a major source of income for 80 percent of the people in the u. s. Since the introduction of social security in the 1930s, this program has been a significant aid to the elderly. Some groups of workers are unable to participate because they work for states with alternative retirement programs.