Sociology 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Technology, Social Inequality, Social Exchange Theory
21 Nov 2016
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Theories can help us to see different aspects of aging. Paradigms: the world views that underlie different groups of theories: deep-seated assumptions. Influences choice of theory, methods, measures, interpretations, etc. Concern with adjustment of aging individual to society. Macro: age is a structured social relations a way that our social relations are organized based on age. Age groups experience different advantages and disadvantages in access to opportunities and constraints. Other structural social relations include gender, social class, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation. Through negotiation, they define, interpret, and control. Rules followed by most norms and institutionalized roles. Individuals can act, not just react, and can change social order. Homogeneous all elderly individuals are alike. Heterogeneous age is only one factor. Old is differentiated by other structured social relations and by experience and circumstances. Passive follows rules and norms, coincides with the normative view. Active acts on own behalf with agency, coincides with interpretive view. Necessary adjustments (within existing social arrangements) = individual.
