KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mandatory Retirement, Geriatrics, Industrial Revolution
6 Dec 2015
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This is definition of power: i you can define something in a certain way then you can start normalize/naturalize people thinking phenomenon and same for age. Thos are some stages that we go through: infancy, toddler, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, prime/mature adulthood; mid-life; middle age, old age. They tend to change through chronology and they vary from different commutines and cultures they are also similar. Aging is relational; it is our perception of us in time as well as our perceptions of other people. In this context what we see is that aging is seen relational to elders. it is open to negotiation, interpretation, and interactions with one another. Our age is always in relation with another person. Different meanings depending upon our sense of self in time, as well as our sense of others. Context is a key it is critical to be a young adult now is very different from our parents and grand parents.
