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Age Integration Theory
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A theory that recognizes that societies have both age-segregated and age-integrated institutions that can either impede or enhance the participation of the aged.
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Activity Theory
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A theory of aging which states that the psychological and social needs of the elderly are no different from those of the middle-aged and that is is neither normal nor natural for older people to become isolated and withdrawn; also called the Implicit Theory of aging.
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Age Cohort
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Refers to people who were born at the same time and thus share similar life experiences.
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Age Stratification Theory
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Underlying proposition is that all societies group people into social categories and that these groupings provide people with social identities; age is one principle for ranking, along with wealth, gender, and race.
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Continuity Theory
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A more formal elaboration of activity theory; uses a life course perspective to define normal aging and to distinguish it from pathological aging.
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Critical Gerontology
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An approach that emphasizes how the forces of globalization affect policies and programs for the aged and the daily lives of older people.
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Deferred Exchange Strategies
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Exchanges between individuals over the life course.
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Disengagement Theory
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The first formal theory of aging; the view that normal aging involves a natural and inevitable mutual withdrawal or disengagement, resulting in decreasing interaction between the aging person and others.
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Exchange Theory
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A theory that social interaction between individuals is based on rational calculations and that people seek to maximize their rewards from these exchanges and minimize their costs; exchange theorists argue that interaction between the old and the young decreases, because older people have fewer resources to bring to the exchange.
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Feminist Theory
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The central purpose is to illuminate the gendered nature of society; gender relations are the main subject matter; notions of masculinity and femininity are seen as socially constructed; emphasis is on the different ways aging is experienced by men and women.
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Filial Piety
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The Japanese tradition of respect and reverence for the elderly.
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Immediate Exchange Strategies
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Exchanges between individuals in goods and services at one point in time.
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Kansas City Study of Adult Life
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A series of studies designed to identify how people adjusted to normal aging processes; the studies couple an emphasis on adjustment with measures of social role performance across the life span.
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Modernization Theory
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The view that nations can be placed on a continuum from least developed to most developed, according to such indicators as the level of industrialization, 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.
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Political Economy Theory
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A theory that old age is a socially constructed and created through power struggles; highlights the structural influences on aging and emphasizes the relevance of power relationship for understanding how the aged are defined and treated.
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Social Constructionism
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Sociological tradition that places individual intentions, motivations, and actions at the center of social theory; view that human beings are active creators of their own social reality.
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Subculture Theory
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A theory that people who share similar interest, problems, and concerns will form a subculture; the aged are believed to have a positive affinity for each other.
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Vertical Society
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Most Japanese relationships were determined by a delicately graded hierarchy with age superseding all other criteria for ranking.
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Functionalism
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Emphasized two ideas that represented classic examples of a broader sociological frame work.
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Social Gerontology
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The study of the social aspects of aging.
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