You have to do the interview portion to be able to write this essay. The first part of the instructions are to help you collect data to write the paper. The second part is the paper guideline.
Life History Interview
Life history records first-hand accounts about the past from people who can give eyewitness information. Life histories give us the opportunity to recognize and understand the significant, but often ignored, contributions of individuals to their families, communities, work places, and society in general.
Your interview should, therefore, attempt to gather information on the individual’s background, significant social events in the individual’s life, the individuals’ changing role across his/her life, and how s/he views the aging experience. Use probing, yet flexible, questions which will prompt the older person to share insights about their life events and views of aging.
As part of your study of aging, you will conduct an in-depth interview with one person who is at least 65 years old. A detailed list of questions is presented below. These questions should provide you with sufficient guidelines for your conversation. However, you need not ask every question. You should feel free to tailor the interview in such a way that you capture the experiences and information that are most pertinent to your subject’s life.
GUIDELINES AND POSSIBLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
A. Demographic Characteristics
1. Relevant demographic data would include age; race/ethnicity; religion; country of birth; educational attainment; main occupation; number of children.
B. Overall Life Review
1. What do think of as the most important things someone should know about you and your life?
2. What do you think as the most significant things from the past that helped make you the person you are now?
3. What are the things you’ve done in life that you feel proudest about?
4. If you could live your life over, what would you like to do differently?
C. Specific Life Events
Family
1. When were you born/ where? What did your parents do at that time? How many brothers and sisters if any, do you have?
2. When did you move out of your parent’s home for the first time? Where did you move to? Why did you move?
3. Are your parents still alive today? If not, when and how did they die?
4. When were you married, if ever married? How did you meet your spouse? How long did you know each other before you got married?
5. How many children, if any, did you have? When were your children born?
6. How many grandchildren, if any do you have? Tell me a little about your children and grandchildren.
Work and Education
7. How many years did you attend school? Where did you go to school?
8. What was your first job? What was the most important job you’ve ever had? How did you decide on your career? All things considered, have you enjoyed your work?
9. If retired, when did you decide to retire?
10. Did you ever serve in the military? To what extent did military service – either yours or someone else’s influence you life?
Hobbies and Civic Activities
11. Have you ever belonged to any groups or organizations? Please tell me about the activities that have been the most important in your life. Could you tell me about the hobbies, or interests you have enjoyed most in life?
Attitudes and Personal Change
12. Think about the attitudes and views you’ve held in the course of your life. These attitudes can be towards politics, religion, family, etc. have your attitudes changed over time? How? Why?
D. Macrolevel Changes and Events
1. What historical events, trends, or inventions do you believe have been the most important in your life time?
2. When you look back at your life, do you think American society has changed for the better or worse? Why? What has changed?
Sociology of Aging: Final Paper Guidelines
DUE: NO LATER THAN, Thursday, May 14th
Your final paper should be approximately 5-6 pages, typed, double spaced, 12 font. Inevitably you will have a vast amount of information and may not be able to integrate all of it into the paper. Try to identify what is revealed from the interviewee’s most closely-held values, his/her responses to certain critical events in his/her life, and his/her feelings about what it means to have lived to his/her current age.
Format
Introduction: A brief description of the older person you interviewed should be included in the introduction in order to give me an idea of who this person is. All in all, like most introductions, provide an overview of what you intend to discuss in your paper.
Presentation/ Analysis (Body): Describe and discuss your understanding of the older person’s life using examples from your interview to illustrate the general themes from the class material. You should try not to discuss too many aspects of the particular person. Rather you should pick a specific focus suitable to the person and discuss what you can learn from them, and discuss how this person’s life illustrates (or perhaps disagrees with) what you have learned in this course. For example, how their cultural/ ethnic background affected their life; the influence of family; their work/career decisions; how their health is impacting their aging experience; their economic situation; any changes that occurred that are particularly positive or negative. Overall, discuss the interviewee’s perspective on aging.
In addition, discuss how this interview has changed (or confirmed) your outlook on aging.
Do not simply describe the interview from start to finish.
Do not try to include all the data you collected, but be selective and pull in quotes to support you interpretations.
Do not simply describe the interviewee’s life.
It should be a thoughtful essay that discusses what a person can learn through the life of a particular individual.
Conclusion: Briefly summarize your interview experience. For example, do you feel this older person is aging successfully? Why or why not? Was it a worthwhile experience? Why or why not?
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