The Aging Connection
How to Begin: Watch the videos below:
- Pinetop Perkins (95) at Notodden Bluesfestival 2008
- What does the older worker bring?
- StreetFilms-Portland: Older adults bike program
- Older adults see benefits from tutoring young children
Task: Write a paper that identifies at least three sociological concepts that are alluded to in the videos, pulling from aging, discrimination, and social stratification theories. At minimum, you should refer to one video, if not multiple videos, to support your ideas.
For each concept:
- Identify the concept using sociological terminology.
- Indicate how the concept is associated with a particular theory or theorist.
- Describe the concept in your own words.
- Describe the part of the video that you think exemplifies this concept.
- Explain how the concept relates to your personal life and/or to your community (city, state, or country).
You need to accurately cite your sources, including any videos, the textbook, and at least one scholarly source. The scholarly source may be pulled from class readings.
The paper must be 800 words, or about three to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference page), and formatted according to APA style. Cite your sources within the text of your paper and on the reference page.
The Aging Connection
Sociological concepts can be defined as basic notions about how to perceive one’s environment. There are a variety of these concepts in sociology. A few examples include gender and class, structure and agency, social movements, race and many others. In the four films, three sociological conceptions are evident namely: social stratification, aging in addition to discrimination on the basis of age (Andersen et al., 2006).
Social Stratification refers to the idea of enmeshing the categorization of people into groups on the basis of common socio economic state of affairs. This could mean a relative collection of disparities in the political, economic, ideological and social dimensions. When………………..
