Sociology 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Sandwich Generation, Infant Mortality, Old Age
14 Apr 2018
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6. 1 the global context: the young & the old around the world: senilicide: killing of the elderly. 6. 2 youth and aging: age grading: assignment of social roles to given chronological ages. Childhood: period of legal infancy legal minor requires guardian for all legal matters, prior to industrialization, infant mortality was high. In canada birth-17y divided into infancy, childhood, adolescence. Idea of adolescence lets adults target and complain about young people. Elderhood: 65^ - young-old, old, and old-old (not necessarily by chronological age, young old = healthy active elderly, old-old = less healthy, less active. Conflict perspective: focuses on age grading as another form of inequality (both young/old occupy subordinate statuses) Individuals at both ends of age continuum, are unneeded in capitalist economy: children not producing/consuming economy, neither is elderly. Importance of examining the social meaning and definitions associated with age (teens portrayed as lazy: media portrays a negative image of the elderly while young are in active roles.
