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Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text is a very, very brief textbook suitable for use as a supplemental or stand-alone text in a college-level minority studies Sociology course. Any instructor who would choose to use this as a stand-alone textbook would need to supply a large amount of statistical data and other pertinent and extraneous Sociological material in order to "flesh-out" fully this course.
Each module/unit of Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text contains the text, course objectives, a study guide, key terms and concepts, a lecture outline, assignments, and a reading list.
Minority studies: a brief text: course objectives: part iv—aging
Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Read about, find, identify, interpret, understand, explain, critique, define, present factually and persuasively, and write about and/or discuss aging from a sociologically scientific perspective.
- Read about, find, identify, interpret, understand, explain, critique, define, present factually and persuasively, and write about and/or discuss the various aspects of aging.
- Read about, find, identify, interpret, understand, explain, critique, define, present factually and persuasively, and write about and/or discuss prejudice and discrimination based on age and the various forms they take.
- Read about, find, identify, interpret, understand, explain, critique, define, present factually and persuasively, and write about and/or discuss theories of aging and the ongoing national debate concerning Social Security, health care, and euthanasia.
- Explain the impact of politics, the political process, as well as economic and social policies on the lives of people in the US based on their age.
- Identify the levels into which the US is stratified based on age and how aging impacts peoples’ life chances.
- Identify and differentiate among various theories of aging.
- Conflict theories
- Functionalist theories
- Symbolic Interactionist theories
- Know and analyze the various aspects of ageism and the way it effects families and society.
- Find, interpret, understand, analyze, critique, and write about and/or discuss statistical information concerning stratification/inequality by age.
- Find and interpret demographic data about the elderly from the US Census and other valid and reliable sources.
- Find, interpret, understand, analyze, critique, and write about and/or discuss statistical and historical information concerning the elderly in the past and present in the US.
- Understand, analyze, critique, and write about and/or discuss popular media’s depiction of the elderly and end of life issues.
- Find, interpret, understand, analyze, critique, and write about and/or discuss legal policies concerning the elderly and end of life issues in the US.
- Find, read, interpret, understand, analyze, critique, and write about and/or discuss aging studies found in peer reviewed scientific journal articles.
Read also:
OpenStax, Minority studies: a brief sociological text. OpenStax CNX. Mar 31, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11183/1.13
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