CHAPTER 2

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1. Which of the following is not one of the three broad areas of study that many experts believe should comprise the basis of education programs in gerontology?

clinico-physiological studies
psychosocial studies
socioeconomic-environmental studies
biomedical studies

 

2. To guide research and interpret the results of their studies, social gerontologists use

statistics and demographics.
test sampling.
theories.
focus groups.

3. Criticisms of micro-level theories include that they

oversimplify social life.
minimize the individual's ability to act.
emphasize what people do rather than the social conditions that cause them to act as they do.
support a definition of old age as a time of decline.

4. The perspective that looks at how people define situations, create social order, and relate to one another is known as the

normative perspective.
interpretive perspective.
social perspective.
ethnomethodology.

5. Because it does not address the connections that exist between interactions, interpretations, and macro-level events,

ethnomethodology needs further work to become a viable research tool.
exchange theory works only at the community and family level.
the interpretive perspective cannot answer many of the questions that gerontologists want to study.
conflict theory is used mainly for micro-level studies.