What is the life course? In what ways does old age differ from other stages of life? How does society construct the stages of the life course?
What will be an ideal response?
• The life course is the socially constructed stages that people pass through as they live out their lives.
• In our culture, commonly recognized stages of life include childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Roles a. help us predict behaviors
b. tell us what is true or false. c. are general ideas about what is important. d. refer to the positions within a social group.
Cohabitants who plan to live together and never marry are:
a. rare b. the most frequent type of cohabiters c. rapidly increasing in frequency d. just as frequent as those who live together and have a marriage date