Exam 12: Sociology of the Body: Disability, Aging, and Death

According to the textbook, what is the most common health condition for centenarians in Ontario?

What do we call a category of people who are all born within the same range of years?

Geraldine is 70 years old.What do sociologists call her age category?

What does BMI stand for?

How many times more likely are women to become centenarians in comparison to men?

Nancy drove her car to the grocery store this morning and overhead a group of young people laughing and making nasty remarks that she was a danger to society because she was too old to be driving.What has Nancy just experienced?

Robert and Lynette met on a popular dating site, where she kept the fact that she was deaf from him.After four months of very intimate computer interactions, they agreed to meet in person.When they met for coffee, Lynette could tell that he was horrified, despite how emotionally close they had gotten.She never heard from him again.What did Robert exemplify by his actions?

As men become older, society often considers them powerful and distinguished.However, as women become older, society considers them unintelligent and unattractive.What is this inequitable situation called?

When a person is neither fully alive nor fully dead, who should decide what happens?

What do we call the type of impairment that keeps a person from being able to perform within the range of "normal" human activity?

According to the textbook, people with disabilities participated little in efforts to improve the conditions they lived within until which decade?

Identify and explain two reasons for the increase of elderly citizens in Canada.

Jodi was discussing the concept of a body project with her mother, and stated that she wanted to "redesign" her body.Which of the following was Jodi interested in doing?

What do we call the average age to which a group of individuals of the same age can anticipate to live?

Societies in which the oldest citizens rule, earn the highest incomes, and enjoy the most prestige are called gerontocracies.

What is the most important thing that an age pyramid can show us about Canada?

Discuss how age can be a socially dividing factor, incorporating current examples.

What do the profiles of the elderly people in the textbook demonstrate about old age today?

Women tend to be criticized more for their poor performance than for their body size.

In Canada and other highly developed countries, people tend to think that they have no rights over their bodies, a view that feminism strongly supports.