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A 3 page paper that begins with an explanation of what life course perspective is. The rest of the paper identifies the historical, social, technological changes experienced by an 6-year-old woman as compared to a 25-year-old woman. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the links between a persons life and the socioeconomic and historical contexts in which the life was lived. Conceptually, life course if defined as "a sequence of socially defined
events and roles that the individual enacts over time" (Rank, 2010). Neither roles nor events may be sequential but they will add up to an individuals actual life experiences. Then
life course title, however, does suggest that there are different ages associated with different phenomena. The Life course perspective expands on importance of time, processing, context, and meaning
on the developmental process and on family life (Rank, 2010). Society is the macro-social group while family is the micro-social group that operates within the macro-group. A social group is
one that is comprised of individuals who have shared a common history and who continue to interact with each other as social contexts change (Rank, 2010). Aging is always
a continuous process. The 86-year-old woman and the 25-year-old women have been raised in different worlds. The elderly woman was born in 1926, just a few years after
the end of World War I. By 1929, four out of every five families owned a car but there were all those who could not afford them (Kenney, 2009). If
the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. This woman lived through the Great
Depression, the proliferation of telephones, World War II, Atomic Bomb alerts, air travel as being common, the Cold War, the Korean war, Civil Rights actions, other protestor actions like womens
rights, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq as well as the recent uprising in the Middle East. She was in her 60s when personal computers became
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