Agents of Socialization (INC)

Question 1

The Life Course

Answer 1

Early childhood (0-5 years)
Late childhood (6-12 years)
Adolescence (13-19 years)
Early adulthood (20-39 years)
Middle age (40-64 years)
Old age (65 +)
Death

Question 2

birth cohort

Answer 2

all of the people who are born during a given period of time and therefore experience historical events at the same point in their lives. Those who grew up during the Depression are often very concerned with accumulating wealthy and “saving it for a rainy day”

Question 3

young adults

Answer 3

completed schooling, work vs kids crisis

Question 4

later adulthood

Answer 4

between 40 and 60, increased recognition of one’s declining health as first signs of physical aging occur; empty nest syndrome is largely a myth (in fact, transition from work to retirement is more difficult), midlife crisis because of erectile dysfunction

Question 5

old age

Answer 5

western definition –> age, not capability; retirement

Question 6

gerontology

Answer 6

during late middle age, people usually confront their own declining health and the death of their parents

Question 7

dying trajectories

Answer 7

the courses that dying takes in both social and psychological sense.