[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 10, 2025  
[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2018-2019 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 349 - Sociology of Aging


Prerequisite(s):  ENG 122  
A critical examination of aging and the life course from a sociological perspective. The course examines how aging and the life course are socially defined; how social stratification of age affects health, illness, caregiving, and choices/chances in the life course; how power influences aging as well as the social and economic outlooks of an aging society; and explores current issues of entitlement, retirement, end of life, and stratified life course experiences.   Issues are considered from a US and global perspective.