Influences on the life course - ANSWERSSocial institutions and policies:
-Order and predictability or dependency on the system
-Time and the life course
-"Successful aging"
Rituals/Rites of passage - ANSWERSCeremonies that mark important transitional periods in a persons
life. Usually involve ritual activities and teachings designed to strip individuals of their original roles and
prepare them for new ones.
Modernization Theory - ANSWERSThe view that nations can be placed on a continuum from least
developed to most developed, according to such indicators as the level of industrialization or the degree
of urbanization, with those exhibiting certain qualities of social structure termed modern; basic premise
is that the aged were revered in the past and that modernization has caused the status of the aged to
decline.
Continuity Theory - ANSWERSA more formal elaboration of activity theory; uses a life course perspective
to define normal aging and to distinguish it from pathological aging. Carrying on leisure activities and
religious
Free radical theory - ANSWERSView that free radicals contribute to the aging process by forming age
pigment and by producing cross-links
Disengagement theory - ANSWERSThe first formal theory of aging; the view that normal aging involves a
natural and inevitable mutual withdrawal or disengagement, resulting in decreasing interaction between
an aging person and others.
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