Age & Aging: Crash Course Sociology #36
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- People are getting older - not just in the individual sense, but the human population itself. Today we’re going to explore those shifting patterns and their implications. We’ll go over the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of aging, including some of the particular challenges that older individuals face.
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References:
Sociology by John J. Macionis, 15th edition (2014)
UN World Population Prospects, 2015 Revision esa.un.org/unp...
Demographic Trends in the 20th Century, US Census www.census.gov...
2010 Census Shows Nation's Population is Aging www.census.gov...
The Decline in US Fertility, Population Reference Bureau www.prb.org/Pub...
National Vital Statistics Report, CDC www.cdc.gov/nc...
Percent of U.S. Adults 55 and Over with Chronic Conditions, CDC www.cdc.gov/nc...
Facts for Features: Older Americans Month: May 2017, US Census www.census.gov...
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"Every second you're sitting there surfing the internet, you're getting one second older." *K I didn't ask for an existential crisis.*
"WE'RE GETTING OLD"
*sobs silently*
Black November
There is a decent chance that some rejuvenating therapies will come up in a few decades, at least. Ageing is no longer a mysterious thing and with the help of modern technology we could get rid of it once and for good.
Sad but true, aging is a real pain, but at least it was awesome to live throughout the years, good or bad, young and old! Time itself only makes us old, not us!
I tried to change careers in my late thirties with no success. I'm not saying age was definitely a factor, but it does seem like tech fields favor young people in their early twenties.
A wonderful thing to watch on my birthday.
Red Walker Happy Birthday!
Oh, the irony!
This is a great overview of the topic! I’m so happy crash course is covering aging, which is often an ignored topic and demographic.
Aging may not always provide wisdom, but it certainly provides perspective. Youth may be wasted on the young, but retirement can also lay waste to the old. Everyone knows or has heard of the man who retires around 65 and is dead within 24 months. Why is that? One factor may be social isolation, another may be a lack of self-worth.
If you define yourself by your job (I'm a teacher or doctor or plumber), retirement may cause a loss of identity or purpose. Volunteering or working part-time may help both of these, and learning new things daily, I believe, helps to keep your mind young.
Age discrimination in the workforce is real and it is a shame; we need experienced workers to pass on their knowledge to the next generations.
Way to go girl! You're doing an awesome work. Great video. I just think that it was a lot in so short time, it would be nice to make a serie of these.
Did you just assume her/his gender?
I find it interesting that racism and sexism seem to have more research devoted to them then agism. And by agism, I don't just mean discrimination against the elderly. I mean the way people dismiss a person based on which generation they belong to. Like when you hear people say, "all baby boomers are selfish" or "all millennials are entitled." Oddly Generation X-ers and Xennials remain relatively unscathed during all this agist name calling, but there's no denying that there is a definite desire to judge people based on what years they were born in-between.
Sitting on Ceilings, I'm going to assume you're being ironic. If it wasn't meant ironically you're oblivious to the fact that your snarky statement just proved my point, and if I assumed that I would be being unkind.
What the heck is an Xennial? Is that the new generation after Millennials? Or is that some borderline category of late GenXers and early Millennials?
Pfhorrest, borderline category. It's the name recent articles have given to people born between the years of 1975 and 1985. Officially, we are Generation X, but unlike the rest of Gen X, we were the first children to grow up using computers (I remember being taught basic coding in grade 2) and unlike Millennials, we didn't have smartphones and even cell phones weren't an every day item yet. So our cultural experience is different from both Gen X and Millennials.
Only the first half(ish) of that date range are "officially Generation X". I'm in the latter half and am officially a Millennial. I do definitely feel different from the rest of the Millennials, but then I'm sure early Boomers born in the mid-40s (like my grandma) felt very different from late boomers born in the mid-60s (who are younger than my mom) too. Apparently there is also a term for the late-Boomers/early-GenX, too: "Generation Jones". I guess they would be the parents of the Xennials.
Pfhorrest
Your Grandmother isn't a Baby Boomer, she's a member of the Silent Generation.
This was very similar to my course in Geographies of Health and Disability
You were at one point, the youngest person
Demostout I still am the stupidest, though. Live with that!
Whenever the oldest person dies, the set of people that lived while they were born will be completely different from the one that is around when they die.
How?
Conner, because when the oldest person dies, everyone who was already alive when that oldest person was born will be dead.
@@connerfields4753 just a millisecond after birth
I'm in the process of producing a documentary about senior isolation and this was super helpful thank you!!!
Just need to say how disappointed I was with the Crash Course on Aging. It was a grim, almost afterthought giving to the aged. Very unlike all the other wonderful, well thought out and inclusive coverage of the other categories of social statuses that suffer inequalities in society. Race was covered, gender, social class, all giving various perspectives and covering the major theories. Where is Activity Theory? Disengagement Theory? the discipline of Gerontology? None of this is covered in this video. I am an older Sociology Professor who has been teaching the concept of age, aging and ageism for 30 years. Please understand, I am also grateful for these informative, well thought out videos and their availability for all. I have become a supporter. I am hopeful you can update, revise and expand this segment.
Thanks. This cheered me right up!
What brand are your glasses?? So beautiful!🌻 (Totally off topic, I know, sorry)
*Awesome video! You guys inspired me to start my own Tutoring Channel as a Medical Student :)*
cool dude, keep it up
that bold text tho XD
Creativity from the net -POOF - right here! Go for ot DT!
Did I see an Anthony Giddens book on the set? I just wrote a paper about his late modernity in sociology class :)
Sociology is such a complete subject. In this episode you literally can use expertise in every field to help you understand the impact this will have on society.
A CC Sociology where the dislikes aren't ridiculous? GASP!
Maybe because the way they handled this subject is actually objective and logically sound for a change XD
I love her panda shirt!
Excellent video I learned its very cool!!!
Great video as always! Hope to be as big as you one day.
If I ask someone: „uh what do you do?“. It’s actually means „I’ve no clue what about to talk with you but you seems to be uncomfortable with the silence“.
My favorite part about age:
"Wow you can do that when you're so young. You got a bright future!"
"You're doing that just now? You're so slow. Get a life!"
So wait, if Sociology is so methodologically flawed, where are all of the dislikes on this video? It's almost like people have sacred cows that they defend despite evidence to the contrary.
I should qualify my statement with the note that evidence isn't necessarily proof. However, the counterarguments I see aren't "This experiement/observation wasn't replicated in a highly similar setting" or "If you consider (Factor X), then the results can be interpreted this way!". More often than not, they can be summed up as "nuh uh".
my problem with sociology can often be summed up as sociologists (that's the word right? i aint no englishman)half the time go for what feels right, as opposed to what is fact.
Well this is the crux of the problem, right? They may or may not be motivated to find a result, but most critics are incapable of fully understanding the statistics or specialized vocabulary. For example, in their video on gender they used the term as a sociologist would and not as a layperson would and didn't do an adequate job of defining it. In that case, if it "feels" wrong for the critic, they automatically call it invalid without truly understanding the argument.
P.S. Sociologist is correct!
Billy Nitro well said my friend,I can't agree with you more!
The problem I find in RUclips is that, this is open to public, anyone and everyone could come and say whatever they want
Unlike in school or any other educational places where the people usually has a similar background
This is not entirely a bad thing as there is a lot of expert that would comment and give correction and or their opinion about the video
But more often than not people with uncertain background said whatever they want and if it sound convincing enough a lot of other informed people will just agree and be done with it without actually do an in depth research etc (mob mentality)
I think it would be fun to analyze and discuss about this particular subject in great detail, I wonder if there's such a channel on RUclips
Indeed! It took me years of higher education before I stopped making the same mistakes, and I'm sure I still do it occasionally. I learned how to ask questions and look for assumptions made in an argument.
Implicit in all Crash Courses (except maybe History, Literature, and parts of others that cover primary sources) is that this is the state of things as we currently understand them. The results are open to critique, but as designed all of the experiments are robust enough to withstand a dislike on RUclips.
If there's not a channel, perhaps Crash Course Epistemics could take off?
Older people aren't considered a complete burden in hunter-gatherer societies, grandparents are very useful for looking after kids so that their parents can keep doing useful things
every college i have attended was plagued old professors that lost their ability to teach years ago, only reason they were not fired or forced to retire is because of tenure thus students don't reach their potential and would be young professors remain unemployed
anyone would has been to WCC knows of the infamous Ernest Jeorg
For consideration of how a LACK of aging can affect a society, please consult your local science fiction channel. (Isaac Arthur is usually the gold standard for this kind of thing, but he doesn't really do sociology beyond vague brainstorming and debunking knee-jerk reactions.)
Healthcare will take a toll, especially, in countries with aging population. Higher number of people not active in the workforce will force the active ones to sustain medical care for the old.
One of the simplest solution to this is to migrate active labor from other countries but that comes with social apprehensiveness.
I think you need to check your numbers on how many people there are 64 and above at :44 . The totals you gave of 46,000 sounds a 10s of millions off.
nunya bussiness that's what I thought, unless maybe everyone I see just looks older than they are. If their figure is true it would make the elderly less than 1% of the American population...
I was thinking she meant millions instead of thousands...
That’s what I thought as well
yeah, figure has got to be off, there
as of 2014, there wee about 1.4 million Americans over age 64, she needs to do some damn research
Where I live, the median age is 42.
Looks like I'm already in the 2050's
It's "average" so when over 80% of African people lives only 15 years, the whole average age goes down. If you was thinking about American average age then idk maybe in Mexico
Oh my god I love you so so much this helped me so much with my oral exam ^^
Thank you
Pls don’t leave RUclips 😭, if you leave Crash Course MAKE UR OWN CHANNEL!!! I need ur wisdom in my life 🙇♂️ and ur style 😉
ZoophreemiaHouse She does have her own channel!
QuinnVlog @ really 🤩 what is it called?
I thought she was gonna talk about disengagement theory and activity theory :(
Is it over?
Are the series of controversial Sociology videos finally over?
Not a word about medical advances leading to rejuvenation of aging people. Well, this was made in 2017. In 2019, massive funds are pouring into research on the root causes of aging. Don't think this isn't going to pan out. It will. No discussion of an aging population is complete without it.
It also means having a government living in the past :/
Good show, but I totally fixated on that panda shirt. Want!
Stable death rates after a long life mean there's more to gain by investing more education, experience, and care into each person. This also means more expense to raise each new person. Also it means there's more incentive to figure out how to prevent the feebleness caused by old age.
How timely, my college soc class is going over the Aging chapter rn.
Have enjoyed this course, though I think there was a missed opportunity to introduce Peter Medawar's theory of senescence here.
Some more discussion age discrimination, inclusive of discrimination against youthful people should be taking place, and is another side-effect of improved longevity.Middle-aged and senior people often expect privilege and respect, even from younger people, who may be far better educated than they are.
Thank God this video is in normal speaking pace. Few of the videos were super fast talking, hard to catch up and seemed like oversmartness
"Death" is a long slow process. With my new heart valve, there will be many deaths, helf-deaths.
Gerontocracy: pretty much the US Congress right now
"I'm not scared of dying
And I, don't really care
If it's peace you find in dying
Well then, let the time be near"
- Laura Nyro (deceased)
Fingers crossed for aging ending in our lifetime.
As soon as you die aging will stop for you. If we don't accomplish it during your lifetime, you'll accomplish it in your death time!
Cheer up! In the end you'll get what you wish, one way or another!
nah death is essential. Sounds appealing to be immortal but it has many bad consequences...
Committing Sudoku Amen, brother. Just see it as one more enemy humanity has to face to prevail
I'd feel really bad for the people who die few days before anti-aging medication becomes available to all people.
Death is no longer certain, with our rapid technological growth, it's not infeasible that we could cure both death and aging within the lifetimes of some people currently alive today
Cool video!
Wow, no auto-downvote party this time around. Interesting.
funny how people seem to disagree with things like "blacks don't commit more crimes" the most...... or the same people saying Sociology is a "pseudo science" as it comes to conclusions that don't support their world view...
Dan Scannell dude bad move.. now the downvoting party will come to your comment.. lmao
Actually I ve seen much more auto-upvotes in RUclips videos generally (including this series) than auto-downvotes. Don't believe me? Get into a video early and you'll see hundreds of likes before the video has been released long enough for people to actually watch it fully. Maybe because they like Nicole, or maybe they just like the series so don't expect a bad video, but that doesn't change the fact.
No, there was an actual alt-right subreddit that instructed users to downvote this show.
in China, I see some elderly people dancing in public...but other times I see elderly people sitting by themselves...
All the gerontologists in the house got excited when this popped up in their feed
what, no conflict theory applied to age? old vs young ...
I cannot believe I'm getting older as I type this 😬
I'll likely work into my 70's, assuming civilization hasn't collapsed by then!
I like your bangle eyeglass
Culture
1 age stratification Hunter gather as burdens industrial older moved out of labour competition with younger works info society
2 effect on informal sector worker more severe
3 job = social worth
4 loss of friends
5 fear if death
2
Did you just assume my age?
Enzo You've just made my day haha
On the real, I think most people would agree that this is a rude thing to do
Pillow Strength now that I think about it, yeah, sometimes I get upset inside me (even if just a little bit) when people think I'm a couple years older or younger or act surprised when they learn about my age. I still think it's funny.
Enzo I think she did hahaha
I don't think she assumed your age so much as the difference between your age today and your age last week. Which, to be fair, is still an assumption; one of those people who age backwards could be watching.
Finally we are out of the contorversial parts again
yep enjoy!
Stop triggering me!
The storm have passed XD
What happen to all the dislikes
it's not about race or gender or politics, so no swarming from the alt-right :)
They just read the title and they did not jumped to any conclusions, like this is not science, or there is no age...
she didn't say wrong things in this video :)
Bob Fearnley ... So everyone who disagrees with you is alt-right, wow !!!
@@bobfearnley5724 Shut up, boomer
Finally a good vid in the series, you handled the subject quite well and were quite accurate, scientific and objective, wish all the vids in this series were like this one, we don't talk enough about the subject of aging and elderly people and the problems they face.
Strange thing though, i know you are focusing on USA most of the time but i expected you to bring up Japan and at least compare it with the USA since their aging population phenomena is far ahead for everyone else, they are having very low birth rates and also very low death rates, compounded by how hard it is for legal refugees to settle in Japan the country as a whole is getting very old very fast ... it would have been interesting if you also looked into all the ways the Japanese gov tried to solve the problem and haven't had much success so far.
Trending! Woo!
We're long due a good apocalyptic event for this not to matter at all.
I just come to read the comments. But ended up finding this course interesting
You haven't watch early video!? Go back and watch them all, this course is awesome
My future .... hamburger with genuine 100% soylent green
Sir Ivan completely to the Ccc course
So please help me
I think I completely to the 11
Finally, a normal episode
Finally I don't need to watch thoughts and expression of prejudices
Is there any empirical evidence that older people in hunter-gatherer societies are given less respect than in agricultural society? That seems like a pretty bold claim, given what we know of hunter-gatherer societies and caregiving.
Elders would rationally be considered burdernsome in societies without surplus. Surely there's empirical evidence too
She said the elderly population is due to double from 46,000 to 98,000 by 2050. Is that per million of population?
I can drink legally now. Definitely feeling old
Ashanti the singer is 37 . She’s 40 in two years time.
She speaks very fast
I know! I’m almost 30!!! ☹️
Haha! I'm 32. I win!
Should we punish everyone with a payroll tax just because a small fraction of the population won’t save for retirement.
I haven't seen such a beautiful and smart woman in the same time before.
This is such a great video, I make similar videos that are slightly shorter and concise about science and health concepts. If you have time have a gander 😊
Just came here to see if Hank was about.
He isn't :C
I identify as old
👌👌👌
Yeah, but what about oxydation as a cause of aging? I though that played a major role, which is one of the reasons why antioxydants are supposedly halting the aging process?
Alesandros356 I'm not an expert but afaik that should be included on the "Error" side
Ugh, I should go back to biology, I forgot most of the detail I learn already
Yes it is true, oxygen is one cause of deterioration of the organs which is considered aging. Though the details on how we age was not the point of the video. It was more about how we deal with aging as a society and how it has shifted from previous times.
If you want to know the details of the aging process and if we are able to stop it or even reverse, hank from scishow made a video about that topic.
Whoever this woman is, she is stunning.
(Saposexuals wild dream)
age IS binary, old or young
I need Arabic translation
aphug was for something
You're not Hank Green, what happened
Pandas!
"People are living longer and having fewer babies"
Apparently you haven't met my mother
Apparently you don't understand how statistics work
ave is going down now though because of all the ODs on drugs nowadays
Zinhac
age is a social construct now
The social connections to it certainly are. People of 12-14 years old used to be considered mature enough for marriage (or to rule a kingdom). Now they can't consent to sexual activity or medical procedures in most Western nations.
Maybe not chronological age, but the perception of people at different ages absolutely is.
What is "old"? Are you old at 40? 65? 80? 30?
What is "young"? Are you still young at 18? 25? 30?
Do these ideas change with context? A 45-year old might not be considered old generally, but an athlete still competing in a professional league at that age (like Jaromir Jagr this year, and Gordie Howe and Chris Chelios previously) probably would be considered quite old, relatively. (Yes, hockey examples. I'm Canadian, so it's what I'm familiar with).
Great explanation Jeff. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Surprise! Age actually is a social construct
i'm a changed man
lol "women live about 8-10 years longer than men, but that means women have to deal with more arthritis."
I expected a bigger gap, thanks to male death via violent causes.
Because women are always systematically oppressed.
you guys sure are grasping at straws to hate on this video
Thanks you, it's interesting, but you talk too fast :(
Societies with birthrates under 1.8 children/women either collapse or get destroyed. To help your society avoid this fate, have lots of children, at least five.
What happened to the dude
I feel like there was too much information here, and it felt rushed. Instead, maybe you should have broken the topic into multiple episodes.
This really should be in biology and psyhcology based on what you breifed. The more I look at your sociology look at age and aging the less I see the actual study and the more I see psychological and biological. This feels like an unneeded science as there already enough branches of study that delve into this stuff. It's already enough that math split off science for no other reason than to isolate the equations for further understanding and evaluation. Which is stupid. Science is literally the real life examples necessary for a student to understand truly the logic behind the equations. At least in chem class and everyday cooking you know what these conversions are good for. In math they mean diddly squat.
Sociology is an integrative discipline, and by that nature very useful.
thetruerift I don't see any integration or disciplin brought on by it. It feels like unnecesary isolation. Please clarify.
Sociology isn't a science, it's more than a science, it relies on many scientific discoveries and concepts to help breakdown the most mysterious thing in the world: Society.
I hate to be that guy but society is pretty far from mysterious. People are very easy to test, study, and observe compared to a lot of phenomena in the maths and sciences.
Committing Sudoku It is very mysterious, despite the many tests and studies down I challenge you to really try to predict what will happen in 20 years and you'll find that all the sociologists will say they can't do that accurately, yes some trends probably will persists and we have done so much research recently but if we don't even really understand how the human brain works in the way it calculates certain decisions and choices but rather the resultant behaviors on the outside then how can you really hope to understand society? Society the history and interaction of thousands of these minds interacting that leads you to your current circumstances. Ask how an alien society might perform in this or that circumstance and I will show you how you really don't know what will happen. That's not the case with sub atomic particles and atoms and a wide variety of chemistry. We know what will happen there.
"We know what will happen there"
We think we know what happens, but we really just have good guesses that match up with what actually happens. The main difference is that society is a lot less mysterious because on the macro scale, the specific processes of an individual's brain (a subset of neuroscience) are much less important, and the accessibility of society to humans allows for much easier observation.
Saying sociology is much more than a science, and that society is mysterious for the reasons you described is rather erroneous IMO because you include the various mysteries of other sciences into your definition of sociology despite only being loosely related and insignificant.
It's not a science simply because people do not all behave in a fixed way given a certain stimulus. There are exceptions everywhere in any given situation. There is no 1 + 1 =2 in sociology like math, there is no chemical A + B = C in sociology like chemistry. Face it, human mind is like water, you can bend it however you want, but even water itself behaves accordingly to its physics, human mind does not simply behave accordingly to its surroundings.
Soooo...basically what science does already.
Thumb up if you are one of those people who die before 27 👍👍👍
I'm only 18 I Will turn 19 next January so I'm still young
@@saeedurrahman2056 it's not about your age, it's about the lifestyle 😂
I fart in y'all's cereal.
Yay!
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