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