Multiple Choice


1	Sociologists call social role changes
		A)	countertransitions.
		B)	trajectories.
		C)	role expectations.
		D)	transitions.


2	Social gerontologists now recognize _____ pathways in the ordering and timing of life events.
		A)	three
		B)	four
		C)	five
		D)	multiple


3	_____ are ways of using age as a social category to group people by status.
		A)	Age norms
		B)	Age grades
		C)	Age timetables
		D)	Trajectories


4	_____ are defined as informal rules that specify age-appropriate roles and behavior.
		A)	Age norms
		B)	Age grades
		C)	Age timetables
		D)	Countertransitions


5	Whose work has been a model for the life course approach?
		A)	Neugarten
		B)	Settersten and Hagestrad
		C)	Elder
		D)	Spitze and Logan


6	Elder’s work illustrates one principle of life course research. What is that principle?
		A)	Informal rules specify age-appropriate roles and behaviors.
		B)	It’s not just living through a major historical event like the Depression that matters but the age at which one experiences that event.
		C)	One distinctive change in the duration of a life course phase is the extension of childhood.
		D)	Inequality increases with age.


7	Middle-aged people who have dependent children and aging parents often are described as the “_____” generation.
		A)	Pepsi
		B)	baby boomlet
		C)	Depression
		D)	sandwich


8	The theory of _____ highlights the influence of earlier life experiences on the quality of life in old age.
		A)	gender inequality
		B)	racial inequality
		C)	cumulative disadvantage
		D)	the crowded nest


9	Over the past decade, research incorporating the life course perspective has emphasized that aging is a dynamic process that must be studied in a historical and _____ context.
		A)	social
		B)	biological
		C)	psychological
		D)	ethnic


10	What was the name of Elder’s book published in 1974?
		A)	Duration of the Life Course
		B)	Children of the Great Depression
		C)	The Sandwich Generation
		D)	The Crowded Nest

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