KIN352 Chapter 6: KIN/HLTH/SOC/REC 352Week 6 - Textbook Notes
5 Mar 2017
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Theoretical approaches to studies of ethnicity and aging. Major trends in ethnic diversity of older adults. Impacts of ethnicity on aging process, access to health and wellbeing. Ethnogerentology: a new field in social gerontology that studies the influence of race, ethnicity, national origin, and culture on individuals and population aging. Ethnicity: the fact of state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Influence of race, ethnicity national origin, and culture on individual and population aging. Ethnic group: may be said to exist if group membership is defined by means of characteristic normally inherited from ones parents. Ethnicity is important because it is one of the main factors that stratifies or contributes to the ranking of the social structure in a multicultural society. General approach to studying older ethnic group members takes into account the importance of socio economic and political conditions encountered by each generation.
