Question

4. How would a symbolic interactionist describe the experience of aging? How does this differ from the other two sociological approaches? (6 points)

Answer 1

The correct answer is; they believe that aging is something that the person perceives themselves to be based on their culture.

Further Explanation:

According to the symbolic interactionist age is only a "socially constructed" thing. They believe that certain age groups behavior is based on how society sees them to be.

There are different perspectives on aging all over the world, they believe this proves their theory that age is only a "socially constructed" thing. Many cultures do celebrate people of old age and respect and revere any one who reaches an age more than 90.

In the United States, people do not believe old age starts until around the age  of 60 or 70. However, there are places in the world such as, Chad,  where the age of 30 is when a person is middle aged since the life expectancy there is so low at 49.

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