Chapter 10: Global Aging

4. This is a development designation that includes high-income countries defined by the World Bank where income is based on GNI average per capita. In 2019, high-income countries were defined as $12,375 per person.
5. This is a development designation that includes low- and middle-income countries defined by the World Bank where income is based on GNI average per capita.
7. This concept emerged from the anthropological tradition wherein it was commonplace to reduce other societies to cultural objects – that the practices and ideologies were foreign and strange (i.e., exotic). In the sociological tradition, it is important to “make the familiar strange and the strange familiar,” according to C.W. Mills, in order to be value-neutral.
8. Within the group of less developed countries, there is a special designation for countries with very low income per person, high economic vulnerability, and poor human development indicators (e.g., low population nutritional status, literacy, education, and high mortality.)
9. theory This theory suggests that as societies modernize and their economies develop, the status of older people declines.

1. The suggestion that if “one size fit all,” then the welfare state programs across countries would mirror each other as nations modernize and economies develop.
2. This development designation used by the United Nations includes all of Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
3. Households where the middle generation is missing and grandparents serve as surrogates. This is referenced in your textbook as it relates to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how it affected family structures. Your textbook offers the case of Kenya where over ¼ of families take this shape.
6. This term refers to the rest of the countries that are not designated by the United Nations as “more developed.”