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12 Cards in this Set
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Age
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Biologically, age is the number of years since a person was born. Sociologically, it also involves cultural definitions about what is required from and appropriate for people of different ages. These definitions vary from one society to another.
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Age Discrimination
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The denial of rights, opportunities, and services to someone exclusively because of that person's age.
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Age Grading
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The process of classifying people into social categories according to age.
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Ageism
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A system of negative evaluations of people based upon their age. Ageism is most commonly applied to the elderly.
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Age Structure
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The number of people in a society at each stage of the life course.
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Aging
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The process of moving through the life course, from birth to death.
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Birth Cohort
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A category of people who were born in the same year or in a small number of consecutive years.
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Generation Units
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Groups within the same generation that respond to their common historical experiences in markedly different ways and come to have distinctly different views from one another.
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Identity
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The sense of who one is and where one is going, involving a sense of continuity about one's past, present, and future.
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Life Course
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The socially defined sequence of stages in a human life, from birth to death.
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Rites of Passage
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Public ceremonies that celebrate and record the transition from one age status to another.
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Transitional Status
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A status that is not permanent, but changes over time. Age is a transitional status because people periodically move from one age category into another.
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