SOCI205

An examination of aging as a social process and what it means to grow old in this society. The course connects the structure of society to the demographic characteristics of the aging population and American values and attitudes to public and private behavior toward the old. Special attention will be given to the experience of aging by social category (gender, ethnicity, and race) in terms of the physical, social, psychological, and economic health of the elderly and the stresses which surface in social relationships.