HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Activity Theory, Disengagement Theory, Social Order

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1BB3
• Professor: Anju Joshi

Document Summary

Subfield within the wider field of gerontology. Examines social side of aging as well as practice-related issues. Looks at aging from perspective of individuals and society\ Provide lenses to examine the research data. Help to select research methods, questions, and samples. No on gerontology theory can explain all the facts. Macro-level theories- systems of larger broader things. Historically least used perspective by social gerontologists. Focuses almost exclusively on the micro level of social life. Social order is based on consensus, cooperation, and shared norms and values. All parts of society serve a role or function to keep society in a state of balance or equilibrium. We create social order, we want to be able to function in society. Education systems, expect people to act a certain way. Legal system, transportation, family as an institution. When things go out of whack, things go back into balance. Mutual withdrawal of individual and society to restore balance to the system.