Social construction of Old Age among university students in Turkey
- Autores: Pelin Önder Erol
- Localización: Sincronía, ISSN-e 1562-384X, Nº. 50 (Spring 2009, Marzo-Junio 2009), 2009
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Old age as a life stage is a socially constructed phenomenon though it is determined biologically as it is pointing out people who are 65 and over. A socially constructed world is not only performed by actors who are actively constructing their own worlds and but also by those who have influence upon those worlds through other social interventions. Social agents construct their own identities through the identity of others; hence in this case old age is constructed through being young; youth also construct the knowledge of old age. In this regard, an emprical study to grasp the breadths and limits concerning the old age which is constructed by young people is carried out in order to illustrate the case in Turkey. The study includes conducting questionnaires on 156 university students (N=156) at all grades who conceive of old age fairly different from each other. The conclusions drawn from this quantitative research foster our argument in which a social constructionist approach is drawn on
