Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text is a very, very brief textbook suitable for use as a supplemental or stand-alone text in a college-level minority studies Sociology course. Any instructor who would choose to use this as a stand-alone textbook would need to supply a large amount of statistical data and other pertinent and extraneous Sociological material in order to "flesh-out" fully this course.
Each module/unit of Minority Studies: A Brief Sociological Text contains the text, course objectives, a study guide, key terms and concepts, a lecture outline, assignments, and a reading list.
Minority studies: a brief text: suggested lecture material for part iv—aging
- Identify and differentiate among various groups of the elderly.
- Young-old
- Old
- Old-old
- Oldest-old
- Identify and discuss the cohort effect
- Have students discuss the various shared memories, technologies, music, clothing styles, etc. from the Depression Kids through the Millennial Generation
- Discuss the aging process.
- Biological aging
- Social aging
- Identify and discuss social attitudes toward the elderly.
- Age-appropriate roles
- Age-appropriate behavior
- Clothing
- Activity levels
- Sexuality
- STDs and the elderly
- Health and illness
- Ability of the elderly to care for themselves and others
- Drug abuse and alcoholism
- Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
- Nursing homes
- The portrayal of the elderly in popular media
- Use the Internet to find and display statistical information concerning aging and the elderly.
- Use the Internet to find and display statistical information concerning the current legal status of the elderly in the United States.
- Use the Internet to find and display statistical information concerning the historical legal status of the elderly in the United States.
- Discuss ageism and the forms that it takes in the US.
- Use the Internet to find and display information about anti-ageist political and social groups
- The AARP
- The Grey Panthers
- Others
- Identify and discuss theories of aging.
- Conflict theories of aging
- Functionalist theories of aging
- Symbolic interactionist theories of aging
- Discuss Social Security and Medicare
- Discuss theories of death and dying
- Discuss euthanasia from social, political, and legal perspectives.
- Use the Internet to find and display information about euthanasia
