HLTC22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gerontology, Pangs, Moral Economy
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Lecture 1: key theories and the life course perspective. Gerontology is a discipline that systematically studies aging. Theories are tools to analyze and understand the phenomena we study. Micro and macro level: micro level looks mainly at individuals and their interactions, macro level evaluates/examines social structures or social elements as they influence these experiences and behaviours. And that, all parts to society serve a role or a function to keep society in a state of balance or equilibrium: these to perspectives influence how researchers form research questions and interpret data, conflict perspectives. 2: the author took both a micro and macro level perspective in this article. Age stratification theory: aka the aging and society paradigm , theorizes the role of social structures in the process of individual aging and the stratification of age by society (bengston et al. Age cohorts: a group of people born in the same time period (i. e. , baby boomers)
