Week 5

Question 1

What percentage of canadas population is over 65

Answer 1

16.1%

Question 2

What is age stratification theory

Answer 2

Both a process and a structure
individuals from strata that may be defined on the bsais of age or biological psychological or social stages of development
strata differ from one another

Question 3

What is age established ins social structure as?

Answer 3

cretierion for entering or relinquishing certain roles and thus it is used as a marker by which age appropraite behaviour is guaged.

Question 4

What is Cohort flow

Answer 4

the essential process underlying the changing size and composition of the age strata.
consists of the formation of successive cohorts, their modification through igration and the gradual reduction and eventual dissolution of each cohort through the death of individual membesq

Question 5

What is individual aging

Answer 5

the aging process is conceptualized as a biopyschological process, captureing psycho and bio development as well as the experience of entering and exitnig roles.
the aging process influences the structure of age related acts or capacities

Question 6

What is allocation

Answer 6

the process by which individuals aer assigned and reassigned to particular roles

Question 7

what is socialization

Answer 7

the process of teaching individuals how to perform new life course roles.

Question 8

What is Model 1

Answer 8

As cohorts age, they move through time and through age strata thus differences in age strata reflect of a culmination of the effects of individual aging as well as different patterns of cohort composition

Question 9

What is the life course fallacy

Answer 9

the assumption that cross sectional age differences capture the process of aging.

Question 10

what is cohort centrism

Answer 10

the error of assuming that other cohorts age in the same way as ones own

Question 11

what is age reification

Answer 11

treats chronical age as the life course variable and does not take into account other factors that influence againg

Question 12

What is reifying historical time

Answer 12

places emphasis on historical change rather than drawing attention to the particular aspects of change that are central to an understanding of variations in age structures or processes.

Question 13

What is a cohort

Answer 13

an aggregate of individuals who experienced the same event within the same interval

Question 14

What is a birth cohort

Answer 14

only a special case of this more general definition

Question 15

What do age stratification researchers believe

Answer 15

that people and roles are differentiaited by an age structure, the elements of which are cohorts, age strata, age related acts, age structures of roles and age related expectations and sanctions.

Question 16

What do social models of disability argue

Answer 16

that a disability is not inherently a part of the person, but instead a function of the interaction between the person and his or her environment

Question 17

What do political economy theorists seek to explain

Answer 17

the relative situation of older and younger individuals by examining the relaitonship between the economic, political and ideological structures that these systems of domination construct and reconstruct

Question 18

Social welfare is

Answer 18

refers to social security and health benefits

Question 19

From the political economy perspective, whatis the state thought to represent

Answer 19

The intersts of the most powerful members of society, and the existing social order is thought to be the result of power struggles in which state participates.

Question 20

What is social construction

Answer 20

the process through which meaning is attributed to social rather than to biological or genetic factors

Question 21

What is an aging enterprise

Answer 21

“programs, organizations, bureaucracies, interest groups, trade associations, providers, industries, and professionals that serve the aged in one capacity or another.”

Question 22

What does crisis ideology explain

Answer 22

the ideology perpetuated by the state and the media regarding social welfare and the aging of the population is another example of how old age becomes socially constructed as a problem.

Question 23

What do mcmullin and curtis argue about age

Answer 23

that its a relational and structural basis of inequality in canada

Question 24

When does oppression occur

Answer 24

if the welfare of one group depends upon the deprivation of another and the deprivation of the oppressed gorup depends upon the exclusion of the oppressed group from access to rescourses, rewards and privileges.’=[