Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Visible Minority, Japanese Americans, Disengagement Theory
28 Apr 2019
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Week 6 wednesday march 6th 2019 social aspects of aging. Bronfenbrenner"s ecological perspective: looks at the developmental process and how it occurs at different layers, start at individual level (ex. Community, mass media, policy, etc. : how these relationships change as you get older (death, moving etc. ) Development is affected by processes at multiple levels. Life course perspective (her favourite: analyzes the norms, roles, and attitudes which contribute to the way that you age overtime - concept of a social clock, at an individual level, social clock expectations and norms set by society, ex. Often present in fourth year students who don"t know what to do after they graduate: ex. Finished school w/ a job, everyone is getting married and having children but you aren"t: aging: what happens over time (life events, life transitions, look at significant historical life events (ex. Grow up in a wealthy neighbourhood with many opportunities)
