[Sociology 2202] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 28 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2202
• Professor: Stephen Lin

Document Summary

Work, retirement & economic security in old age. Macro: government policy; economy (national & global), social trends, structured social relations & constraints. Political economy, critical & feminist perspectives relate to: institutionalization of retirement and pensions as expected transition of old age. Gendered/structured social relations embedded in life course experiences of work consequences for pensions & retirement for different groups (e. g. , gender) Traditional view of lc trajectory: education work retirement. Work history influences: income and savings; economic security living arrangements social status, lifestyle health (cumulative advantage/disadvantage applies to the above) Employment status (full-, part-time; unpaid work at home) Balancing work & personal lives/family: linked lives, decisions regarding work shaped by meso and macro-level factors, agency-structure tension. Opportunities for training: older workers not target of retraining programs. Unequal access to benefits: full vs. part-time, structured social relations, including age (seniority in union jobs) E. g. , poor economy, globalization cost-cutting (organizational restructuring economic insecurity)