Sociologists refer to inequalities, differences, segregation, or conflict between age groups as
a. the generation gap.
b. age discrimination.
c. age stratification.
d. the graying of America.
Most people have left paid employment by which age?
a. 60
b. 65
c. 70
d. 75
According to social gerontologists, the primary reason most people deny they are aging is because they
a. do not want their friends and children to think of them as old.
b. do not feel old.
c. associate old age with death and want to deny its reality.
d. deny many things in life.
Concerning how people cope with dying, which approach identified three common stages of grief: the acute phase, the chronic phase, and the terminal phase?
a. trajectories of grief approach
b. stage-based approach
c. task-based approach
d. dying trajectory approach
Concerning how people cope with dying, which approach identified four common phases of grief as resilience, recovery, chronic dysfunction, and delayed grief or trauma?
a. stage-based approach
b. dying trajectory approach
c. trajectories of grief approach
d. task-based approach
Which of the following statements most accurately describes later maturity in the United States?
a. This stage of the life course does not differ dramatically from middle age.
b. Many people in later maturity find themselves caring for people of their own age and older individuals, especially their elderly parents.
c. Old age is considered to begin in this stage of the life course.
d. None of these statements accurately describes later maturity.
The life expectancy at birth in the U.S. is
a. 72.
b. 74.
c. 76.
d. 78.
The study of the life course primarily involves
a. an examination of the age-based categories through which people pass as they grow older.
b. the biological, physical, and social aspects of being old.
c. developmental processes in infancy and childhood.
d. how the media portrays the elderly.
Wrinkles, gray hair, and other signs of the aging process that occurs in middle age are known as
a. senescence.
b. initial aging.
c. secondary aging.
d. tertiary aging.
In regard to problems associated with age-based stereotypes,
a. stereotypes apply only to the elderly.
b. stereotypes overplay positive traits of the elderly.
c. there are more stereotypes about physical and mental abilities of the elderly than other age categories.
d. stereotypes avoid derogatory remarks about people's age, race, gender, or sexual orientation because everyone has a constitutional right to freedom of speech.
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