SOC 107 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Gerontology, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 107
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Ideological dominance of adulthood (raby, p 148) Privileged stage of life because adults work. Age norms are valuable to the functioning of society and necessarily enforced through social control. Any deviation from the norms that dictate our behaviour will lead to disorder in society. Careers are considered satisfactory if we make the grade at the appropriate age: age consciousness. Symbolic interactionists stress that the changes associated with old age, in and of themselves, have no inherent meaning. Nothing in the nature of aging creates any particular, defined set of attitudes. Rather, attitudes toward the elderly are rooted in society. Symbolic interactionist perspective focus on how elders" identities are created through their interactions. The life course: refers to our lives, from infancy to death, and includes consideration of. The way in which social institutions shape and institutionalize individual lives"(settersten and mayer, 1997, 234 in raby, p. 133) Different stages of the life course: childhood (birth 12 years old)