HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Conflict Theories, Baby Boomers, Activity Theory
7 Oct 2014
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Bengtson and schaie (1999) identify 4 ways that theory is valuable to researchers: allows for the integration of new knowledge with info that is already known about the topic or issue, provides a framework for the explanation of finding, predicts outcome in future research, provides practical info for the development of social programs and. Interpretive: key assumption: society = interactions between individuals and groups, people assemble or order the social world (called construction of reality, people assign meaning to things or symbols, people have agency idea that people have the ability to do things that they wish or desire to do so, people are creative actors with the ability to interpret or construct meaning. Disengagement theory: cumming and henry (1961, mutual withdrawal of individual and society to restore balance to the system, disengagement is an evolutionary universal and beneficial for individuals and society, total disengagement = death.
