GERO 420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cohort Analysis
7 Feb 2018
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Social structure: created when a pattern of interrelated statuses & roles coalesces to constitute a relatively stable set of socially constructed relations. It does not determine behavior, but rather form a contxt in which individuals experience the aging process: age structures: socially structured relations among individuals & age cohorts. It shapes social life through agency & gender stratification. Depression of the 1930s: people who were children of this depression generation & who were influenced throughout their lives by the fact that they were children during this calamitous economic period in history. Macro-level of society, seeks to understand how cohorts maintain continuity in the existing social order or how & why they initiate change in the social order. It examines the influence of emerging age cohorts on the stability of social structures & considers interaction patterns within & b/t members of age strata: lineage effect: the similarities, differences, or conflicts among generations in an extended family.
