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Sociology 260 Midterm 2
What is the theory of disengagement? - correct answer ✔suggest that aging
is accompanied by a mutual withdrawal of individuals and society from each
other. (Withdrawal considered natural, universal, inevitable) Disengagement is
both physical and sociological


what does the structural funtionalist theory seek to explain? - correct answer
✔seeks to explain how social stability is maintained


Why do the elderly disengage from society? - correct answer ✔The physical
decline and death is disruptive to society so in response society disengages
from elderly people or there productive participation before this decline occurs


How does society make sure the elderly are not disruptive to the economy? -
correct answer ✔The elderly transfers their roles, status, responsibilities to
younger people


What are some criticism to the theory of disengagement? - correct answer
✔its classists (assumes everyone has enough money to retire), it hegemonies
elderly people (that all elderly people are in physical and mental decline- not
true) and supports an ageist position toward elderly members


What is activity theory? - correct answer ✔proposes that life satisfaction
decreases with age and disengagement but that this can be remedied by
engagement in activities (a high level of activity increases personal
satisfaction in old age)


how are activities measured? - correct answer ✔employment, time with
family and friends, social time, time with organizations/associations, shopping,

,exercising, gardening, tending to the home (how much activity is measured
against how much activity the individual would like to have)


Activity theory agrees that elderly disengage with society and society
disengages with them because - correct answer ✔people felt alienation and
loss of identity (work is our identity) and can increase self esteem if engage in
activities


What is a benefit/positive about the symbolic interaction approach of elderly? -
correct answer ✔It prioritizes the individual (so does not hegemonizes the
elderly)


What are some criticism of activity theory? - correct answer ✔over-
emphazing the individual (notion of choice); under emphaizing the role that
structural factors play in our choices (activities cost money); ignoring
personality factor (not everyone wants to do activities)


What is the life course approach? - correct answer ✔individuals construct
their own life courses through the choices and actions they take within the
opportunities of history and social circumstance (agency). it is human
development and aging are lifelong processes (continuity)


How is the life course of individuals shaped? - correct answer ✔by historical
events, geographical locomotion, and social realities of the era in which one
lives (structure)


describe social time - correct answer ✔the timing of life events impacts the
experience of these events by individuals and families (social time)

, What does the life course approach take into account? - correct answer
✔social time, structure, agency, psycho-social notion of interdepency and
cohesion


The process in life course approach is - correct answer ✔about the individual
as they move through the life course but also how their environments affect
their lives. Lives are lived interpedently and relationships influence the life
course


Give examples of life events - correct answer ✔schooling, leaving home,
career, marriage, parenthood, children's schooling, children leaving home,
retiring


give examples of life transitions - correct answer ✔illness,
divorce/separation, family illness/death, financial challenges


what is the assumption about life events in life course approach? - correct
answer ✔that life events happen sequentially but a more contemporary ideas
acknowledges that these events can happen in all different types of orders


What can life transitions be impacted by? - correct answer ✔Non-
normarative events (things that are not predicted - loss of job, illness)


Describe agency in life course approach in understanding retirement - correct
answer ✔Agency is everything that the individual does to determine that
phase of their life. Such as desire to retire in florida, establish a financial plan
which allows for this


Describe interdependence in life course approach in understanding retirement
- correct answer ✔personal relations which can affect your plan. Such as

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