SOC246H1 Lecture Notes - Hayflick Limit, Antagonistic Pleiotropy Hypothesis, Telomere
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This semester can basically be boiled down to two inter-related concepts: individual aging and population aging: key questions: Age is simply at its most basic level a correspondence with time. This is a tricky question because we don"t know if aging causes things or if the passage of time just allows more opportunities for things to happen (ex. Back pain, amount of money in bank account) There are various ways to categorize age chronological age formal duties and priveledges (ex. > statistical age norms (descriptions about the statistical regularity of the timing of different life events in the larger population) ex. > optimal age norms: idea that there is a preferred tiem for something to happen in someones life, more fuzzy. The sense that theres a best time to do something. > prescriptive age norms: not just the best time but when someone should (informal or formal sanction if someone doesn"t follow through with the age norm). ex.
