Main Content
Lesson 02: Overview: Aging is Not About a Long Life
Overview: Aging is Not About a Long Life
Reading Assignment
See course schedule.
Number of Resident Lectures: 1
Learning Objectives
After completing the textbook reading assignment and the content lesson, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Define and explain sociological aging.
- Use Roberts’ (1978) four criteria to explain how one can consider aging a social problem.
- Identify the three primary facets of the social construction of aging.
- Explain the difference between cross-sectional and longitudinal research study designs.
Key Terms
age norms |
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