ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Margaret Mead, John Blacking

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

Degeneration and death are inevitable consequences of life. In the real world and real life, environmental/social/political hazards usually overshadow. ____ avg life expectancies in some countries are v low. Suggests that although we all age, we must consider age and ageing as a cultural process as opposed to a natural one. The fact that human organisms age tells us nothing about how ppl symbolically organize our lives around aging. Important questions answered by looking at society and culture. All of these might appear natural and logical categories but they"re products from society ex. Aging in a sense is a continual process from conception we begin aging and it only stops at death (all organisms do this) Social and cultural processes demarcate different ages/periods in the life course of a particular individual. Diff societies decide in diff ways what age boundaries to draw (toddlers adolescents teens etc. ) How one moves from one category to the next.