3.1.1 Module Objectives

3.1.2 Introduction: Underlying Assumptions

3.1.3 What to Expect

3.1.4 Temporal Dimensions of Life: Age

3.1.5 Temporal Dimensions of Life: Aging

3.1.6 Temporal Dimensions of Life: Cohort Effects I

3.1.7 Temporal Dimensions of Life: Cohort Effects II

3.1.8 Temporal Dimensions of Life: The Aged

3.1.9 Temporal Dimensions of Life: The Aged II

3.1.10 History vs. Cohort vs. Time

3.1.11 Reflection (I)

3.1.12 Reflections (II)

3.2.1 Social Theories of Aging

3.2.2 Modernization Theory

3.2.3 Modernization Theory (II)

3.2.4 Criticisms of Modernization Theory

3.2.5 Role Theory

3.2.6 Role Theory (II)

3.2.7 Criticisms of Role Theory

3.2.8 Disengagement Theory

3.2.9 Activity Theory

3.2.10 Reflections (III)

3.3.1 A Model of Psychological Development

3.3.2 An Explanation of Development

3.3.3 Nonnormative Influences: On-time vs. Off-time

3.3.4 Age-related Changes in Overall Cognitive Functioning

3.3.5 Age-related Changes in Intellectual Functioning (Cont'd)

3.3.7 Aging and Memory

3.3.8 Benign Senescent Forgetting

3.3.9 More on Aging and Memory

3.3.10 Old Dogs and New Tricks

3.3.11 Personality in Late Life

3.3.12 Mental Health in Late Life

3.3.13 Coping In Late Life

3.3.14 Successful Aging

3.4.1 Culture And Aging

3.4.2 Age as an Organizing Principle in Society

3.4.3 Gerontocracy

3.4.4 Reflections (IV)

3.4.5 Other Stratifying Principles: Gender

3.4.6 Other Stratifying Principles: Ethnicity, Race, and Minority Status

3.4.7 More on Race

3.3.8 The Concept of Ethnicity

3.4.9 Importance of Distinguishing Race and Ethnicity

3.4.10 Minority Status as a Stratifying Principle: Sexual Orientation

3.4.11 Minority Status as a Stratifying Principle: National Origin

3.4.12 The Special Plight of Older Migrants

3.4.13 Social Class as Stratifying Principle

3.4.14 Reflections (V)

3.4.15 Multiple Jeopardy?

3.4.16 Formal Age-Graded Social Organization

3.4.17 Intergenerational Relations

3.4.18 Intergenerational Relations (II)

3.4.19 Case: Mr. Wujing Xian

3.4.20 Case: Mr. Wujing Xian (II)

3.4.21 Case: Mr. Wujing Xian (III)

3.4.22 Case: Mr. Wujing Xian (IV)

3.4.23 Case: Mr. Wujing Xian (V)

3.4.24 Case: Mr. Wujing Xian (VI)

3.4.25 Language Problems of Older Immigrants

3.4.26 Intergenerational Conflict in Immigrant Households

3.4.27 Intergenerational Equity

3.4.28 Achieving Social Control Over Adolescence

3.4.29 Achieving Control of Late Adulthood?

3.4.30 Reflections (VI)

3.5.1 Transitions and Ceremonies Marking Age/Stage

3.5.2 Normative Transitions in Later Life

3.5.3 "Off Time" Transitions

3.5.4 Reflections (VII)

3.6.1 Competent vs. Decrepit Elders

3.6.2 Adult Guardianship in Euro-American Societies

3.6.3 Elder Abuse

3.6.4 Caregiving: Informal

3.6.5 Caregiving: Formal

3.6.6 Residential Care

3.6.7 Ageism and Therapeutic Nihilism

3.7.1 Cultural Views of Death

3.7.2 Funeral Rites

3.7.3 The "Good Death"

3.7.4 End of Life Care