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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 key terms and concepts for part iv—aging

AARP

Active euthanasia

Activity theory

Ageism

Ageist stereotypes

Aging

Alcoholism

Baby boomers

Betty Friedan

Changes in personality

Clinical depression

Cohort

Cohort effect

Conflict perspective

Consequences of ageism

Depression kids

Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Euthanasia

Family-like relationships

Folkways concerning aging

Functionalist paradigm

Gen X

Gender differences in role continuity

Grey Panthers

Indicators of stratification

Maggie Kuhn

Millennial Generation

Myths about aging

Norms

Nursing homes

Old age

Oldest-old

Old-old

Passive euthanasia

Political activism

Portrayals of the elderly on television

Sexual activity among the elderly

Social disengagement theory

Social roles

Societal attitudes toward aging

Socioeconomic status of women

Sociological explanations of the aging process

Spouses caring for each other

Stages of dying

Stereotypes

Stratification by age

Subculture theory

Suicide

Symbolic interactionist paradigm

The Fountain of Age

Total institution

Young-old

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Source:  OpenStax, Minority studies: a brief sociological text. OpenStax CNX. Mar 31, 2010 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11183/1.13
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