Meanings, roles and identities associated with being a particular age vary between societies
Different meanings associated with old age
Variations in the meanings of age in different societies
Age analyzed in terms of "social age"
Experience and social meaning of ages may differ between men and women
Interpretivists focus on the meanings attached to age categories their effects; thus, age categories are a product of social definitions (supports idea of age as socially constructed)
Social definition of old age varies between societies
Variations between societies of when old age begins and the social meanings attached to it supports idea of age as a social construction (see Themes and Perspectives p. 782 for examples)
No clear-cut definition of old age
Criticisms of functionalist disengagement theory of old age (p 784)
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