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Advantage and Disadvantage and the Life Course

Advantage and Disadvantage and the Life Course. Gero 302 Jan 2012. Social Reproduction and Structure Theory. The role of person-environment or social-system process that are potentially modifiable are critical variables in the patterns of cohort aging.

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Advantage and Disadvantage and the Life Course

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  1. Advantage and Disadvantage and the Life Course Gero 302 Jan 2012

  2. Social Reproduction and Structure Theory • The role of person-environment or social-system process that are potentially modifiable are critical variables in the patterns of cohort aging. • Diversity of Older Persons-variability increases with age on a number of characteristics-for example poverty and old age around retirement/widowhood. However, life-course socio-economic status must be considered in this equation. • What are inequality generating practices? Reproduction Theory-depicts advantage and disadvantage from childhood and schooling based on stratified educational and socialization opportunity.

  3. Reproduction Theory • Theory is in conflict with: equal opportunity, merit based reward systems, status attainment, intergenerational mobility, a new breed of functionalism. • Education and work are institutionalized systems through which class and gender inequalities are systematically reproduced and success or failure created. • This affects members of a cohort as they pass through the life cycle and life course. • Studies have found many links between social class, childhood nutrition, risk factors such as low birth weight, smoking etc.

  4. Structured Opportunity • This theory relates to roles and statuses and associated incongruities. Education, military and corporate systems all have finite numbers of positions which are institutionalized. • Issues such as merit driven promotion or vacancy driven mobility and various allocation systems within organizations. • Labor market features-career development, earning trajectories, legal, political and other dimensions of institutional life which impact access to earnings, health care, job stability, pensions, work related consequences, job learning opportunities, psychological stimulation.

  5. Human Capital Theory • Fixed Ability-habits, talents, other work related characteristics of individuals are immutable, and the value of workers is not increased by education. • Education shapes identity and internalization of cultural practices as well as work-place skills.

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