BI110 Study Guide - Vision Quest, Signify, The Good Life
Document Summary
Leaving home, forming enduring love relationships, and perhaps having children are important rites of passage that signify increasing maturity for individuals in most societies. The life-course approach views aging as a developmental process. The family life-cycle framework views life as a series of transitions. Middle age and again years are stages of growth and development. The later years are transitional years, as men and women see their children leave home, the workplace, and the final stage of life. Individuals prepare to separate themselves from their children"s lives and from their working lives. The stages of life became stages of development towards maturity and wisdom. The years 25 to 45 are the productive years, when individuals focus on stability and the culmination of their goals. After age 65, there is biological decline, and individuals reflect on the fulfillment of their goals or experiences of failures. Models of aging the stability template model the orderly change model the theory of random change.
