SOC334H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elderly Care, Ageism, Grounded Theory
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A geis m: dis crimination agains t s omeone"s age. L ike nurs ing home etc: what is gerontology: studies aging. What is proportion of 65+ in canada: 17% in 2016. Social economic relations: elderly care and support. Instructionist theory- microlevel, how people interact: social theory is series of ideas that help us understand social world, conflict theory- competition for scarce resources. How elite control weak: functionalist theory- how form functions, all useful to study ageism, theory comes after observation. Attention to transition from school to work, child to adult. and trajectory more long term path: cohort, group of people born at same time, age grade, childhood adulthood experience in life, theory in understanding, age stratification. Can categorize in terms of economic, gender, and ethnicity. People trying to get job are the youth: gerontology theories: disengagement theory. Loss of roles from certain roles when they get to certain age.
