NURS 838 - Seminar on Socially Defined Images and Issues of Aging

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Kagan. For PhD students developing interests allied with an aging society. This doctoral seminar explores selected topics in social gerontology and consequences of advancing age in the 21st century. The examination is designed to analyze and critique social images, constructions and processes. Contemporary and historical ideas ranging from stereotypes of the dirty old man and the sweet little old lady to language of intergenerational conflict and the sandwich generation are fair game. Foundations used include classical works in social gerontology and emerging research in aging studies and related fields viewed through a critical lens built from understandings of diverse individual, familial, cultural and societal notions of aging and human experience and drawing on student and faculty background and life experience. Skills for theory and research critique as well as participant observer field work in the tradition of thick description are built to allow reflection of current representations of aging and being old in contrast to the contemporary and historical ideas gleaned from the literature.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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