2023-2024 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

SOC 340 Aging and Life Course

Focuses on life course theory and the study of aging from a sociological perspective. Explores the centrality of age and life stage to the structure of society, the social construction of age and generation, how individuals age within a social context, and how social institutions structure how we age. Particular attention is given to cumulative inequality and how the intersections of age, race, class, and gender impact later-life outcomes.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

SOC 110 or SOC 111 or GERO 101

General Education

Offered

  • Fall and Spring