Chapter 13 sociology section quiz
What is the approximate median age of the United States
37
What is the primary driver of modernization theory?
Industrialization
America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except:
Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt
Which action reflects ageism?
Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65
The "graying of the United States"refers to
The increasing percentage of the population over sixty five years old
The age discrimination in employment act counteracts which theory
age stratification
Thanatology is the study of _____.
c. death and dying
If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.
caregivers
Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is ______.
increasing
In most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men.
live a few years longer
The measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is ______.
sex ratio
For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is ________.
the typical sequence of events in their lives
Veterans are two to four times more likely to ______ as people who did not serve in the military.
to commit suicide
Who wrote the book On Death and Dying, outlining the five stages of grief?
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Which assertion about aging in men would be made by a sociologist following the functionalist perspective?
Men who remain active after retirement play supportive community roles.
In the United States life expectancy rates in recent decades have
continued to gradually rise
An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the _______ theory.
disengagement