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1 What is the definition of gerontology the study of the social psychological and biological aspects of aging 2 What are the five major principles of aging research Human Development and aging as a lifelong process linked lived timng in lives livein times and places human agency in constrained situiations 3 What are linked lives that people in salient relationships with each other such as parents and children occupy mutually influential interlocking developmental trajectories that extend throughout their lives 4 What is the definition of social psychology Study of how people thing about influence and relate to one another 5 What are major areas of study in social psychology Social influence social identity and social interactions 6 What is stereotype threat Being at risk of confirming a negative stereotype about ones group 7 What are the three major areas of focus in demography Fertility mortality and migration 8 How has fertility and mortality changed in Japan Japan compelted its first demographic trasition but its fertility rate is now below replacement level and its age pyramid has a bulge in the middle relatively few old and young people and many middle aged people 9 What is the definition of demography The study of the size composition growth and distribution of human populations 10 What is the definition of the Malthus theorem Population grows geometrically while food supple increases arithmetically if population growth is unchecked then it will outstrip food supplies 11 How does the rate of industrialization affect birth rates 12 What are the three stages of the demographic transition Stage 1 stable population births and deaths are more or less balanced Stage 2 rapidly growing populations births far outnumber deaths Stage 3 Stable population births drops and births and deaths become more or less balanced 13 What is a population pyramid A graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population typically that of a country or region of the world which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing 14 What occurs in countries with a rapid growth rate Increased numbers of people amoung whom to share resources which can result in a declinging standard of living or in political instability followed by severe repression by the government 15 What is the definition of a social movement Conscious and concerted efforts by ordinary people who come together around a set of demands s to change preserve some aspect of their society 16 What factors explain why a social movement emerges Depends of different set of factors ranging from economic structures and political processes to organizational conditions and cultural circumstances 17 What are the three theoretical perspectives that explain why social movements take shape Make sure that you know the definition of each perspective resource mobilization and political process approaches the more resources a movement controls or mobilized the better chances it has to achieve its aims social networks emphasize the importance of internal webs of ties that connect individuals whoa re mobilized into social movements social media such as facebook can also be used to recruit people cultural approaches emphasize moral commitments and emotional engagements a moral shock that causes huge disruptions in the social and political order can motivate people to join a movement 18 What are social movement organizations Hint think about the example I used in class an organized component of a social movement formal organizations that share movement s goals usually have coordinating roles in social movements but do not actually employ or direct most of the participants who are part of a wider social movement community carry out the tasks that are necessary for any social movement to survive and to be successful 19 How did sociologists perceive social movements before the 1960s Focused on economic concerns 20 What is the most important predictor in determining whether or not you will join a social movement to aim to restructure society 21 What are the three reasons why a social movement will decline Hint the examples I gave in class might help you on the test Changing political envoriments externally changing political circumstances may erode the functions and foundations of social movement organizations Internal Dynamics and evolution internally members may adopt different lifestyles or the group may fail to secure its collective identity Repression movements may decline because the political opportunities and the free space that have helped give rise to them begin to disappear 22 What is the definition of health State of complete physical mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity 23 How does the field of medicine view health and illness How does medical sociology s view of health and illness differ from this The Field of medicine focuses on morbidity all illness symptoms and the impairments they produce and life expectancy Medical Sociology Social epidemiology is the study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society s population and Focus how differences in health status are linked to social economic or environmental conditions 24 What is the socioeconomic gradient in health The higher your socioeconomic status the healthier you tend to be 25 What is the definition of medicalization The process through which a condition or behavior becomes defined as a medical problem requiring a medical solution 26 What are some examples of medicalization Erectile dysfunction and Viagra female sexucal Dysfuction orgasm Inc 27 How did Viagra become successful Making Viagra further required that what the penis should do needed to become more and more important and demanding so that most penises would fail or falter at some point This was accomplished by cultural shifts in gender role spotlighting genital aptitude as proof of masculinity 28 What does medical authority allow the medical establishment to do Hint I listed five specific things doctor maintains professional dominance over patients the professionalization of medicine produces social distance between the practitioner and the sick person doctor is assumed to be the knowledgeable expert and the patient is the relatively ignorant recipient of the doctors professional services language use you call the doctor by their title and they call patent by their first name social control of time doctors spend about 13 18 mins in


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