6 easy quesetion
Provide well-developed and thoughtful answers by utilizing your analytic, interpretive, and critical thinking skills. Connect your answers to the broader social structure, ideologies, power relationships, sociological terms/concepts/theories, and to broader society overall. When appropriate please add an example and/or quote from the textbook to explain your answer.
TEXTBOOK LINK:http://open.lib.umn.edu/
1.Analyze the following quote by adding a detailed example:” “In our youth-obsessed culture, older people seem to be second-class citizens” (Introduction).
2.Explain this direct quote: “one of our major goals in life is to become old” (6.1).
3.Chronological, biological, psychological and social are the four dimensions of age and aging.
4.Describe how the functionalist, social interactionist, and conflict approaches help us understand patterns of social aging. Provide examples to highlight your point(s) (6.2)
5.How do race and gender impact life expectancy? What are some ways to equalize life expectancy across all statuses?
6.Look over table (6.2) under section 6.5, what statistic/percentage stands out to you? Why?
I already put that link in the text.
and I think it is about chapter 6
Cultural Ideologies
Question 1
A youth-obsessed culture is one in which there is so much high level of vibrancy, that the fast-moving economy sends up forgetting the input from the elderly could be pivotal to the society. In this case, there is too much effort paid to individual economic success such that stereotypes about the elderly end up reducing the effort made to address the issues they face. For instance an increase in the number of elderly homes is equivalent to seeking a way of getting the elderly away from their homes, to reduce the responsibility of their family members in taking care of them. They receive limited attention from their family members while in the retirement homes,