SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Filial Piety
Document Summary
Age groups have no permanent distinguishing features (everyone starts young and becomes old) Age differentiation requires a lot of cultural socialization into myths about youth and old life. Age sets defines social status, permitted roles, & activities of people belonging to them. Confucius way of ruling society (through filial piety: ruler to ruler, wife to husband, friend to friend, younger brother to elder brother, friend to friend. Traditional societies children bear the cost of their parents directly within their families. Modern societies older people assume the costs of their children directly, within families. A patterend sequence of someone"s experiences over time, subject to varied social, historical and cultural influences. Exclusion -social problems associated with unemployment, low income, or isolation: barrier to exercising social rights, state of isolation from wider society, lack of access to important positions of economic, religious or political power. David matza young people drift" into delinquency without a strong motivation to do harm.
