SOC246H1 Chapter 3: Chapter 3
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e. g. societal expectations regarding when people should bear their first children: countertransitions: produced by others" role changes, e. g. when you have a child, your father automatically becomes a grandfather, trajectory: a series of transitions, e. g. e. g. gender differences in employment trajectories women having more disorderly work careers than men as they move in and out of the labor force to care for children. Influences on the life course approach: age stratification theory: age is one of the bases for regulating social interaction and for ascribing status. the timing of the entry into and exit from social positions has age-related consequences. the pattern of biological aging and the sequence of age-related roles are altered by historical events www. notesolution. com: the study of age grading. age grades: ways of using age as a social category to group people by status (each group has a distinct role)
