1 .		Early research in the field of gerontology tended to be theoretical rather than applied.    True  False
2 .		Since the 1980s, social gerontological thought has become increasingly more qualitative.    True  False
3 .		According to role theory, roles tend to become more ambiguous with age.   True  False
4 .		According to the activity theory of adjustment to age-related changes, the more active an older person, the greater his or her satisfaction with life.   True  False
5 .		Social theories of aging today differ from earlier theories in their attempts to understand the meaning of age-related changes for those sequencing them.   True  False
6 .		Age stratification theory and the subculture of aging suggest that older people prefer socializing within their own cohorts.   True  False
7 .		The life course perspective views human development as an interactive, nonlinear process where the role gains and losses, continuity, and discontinuity appear simultaneously.    True  False
8 .		One advantage of disengagement theory is that it assumes that withdrawal from social roles is functional and experienced as desirable by most older people.   True  False
9 .		Social phenomenology and social constructionism are characterized by their use of quantitative methods.   True  False
10 .		The issue of caregiving in old age is defined by feminist theorists as an example of women's equal access to power throughout their lives.   True  False