Culture and Socio-Economic Status Influences Aging

Culture and socio-economic status influences aging See how culture and Socioeconomic status influences aging.  1) Interview two (2) older individuals of different ethnic/religious/socioeconomic backgrounds about their cultural/socio-economic life histories and experiences.  2)Write a 3-page paper that talks about your interviewee’s experiences and what you learned from both them and your group. asking the interviewees, the same questions allowing room for adding questions specifically pertaining to the interviewee) and qualitatively based (open-ended, not answered using a number as in Likert Scaling).  Devise a set of questions that uses the information on culture. The interviews should be extensive, finding out as much as you can about the person’s personal cultural history and their lives today as they relate to their culture. Make sure you let the people know that it is for a class project and will not be published, that only your teacher will see the interviews, and that their real names will not be used. Formatted following these guidelines:   1)         Introduction – explain the nature of the study 2)         Case profiles as related to information possible connections to research, peer-reviewed journal articles: a.         basic background information about the person (current age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, language spoken, socioeconomic class –change the person’s name or use only first name…) b.         cultural history (where s/he grew up, religious upbringing, language(s) spoken, experiences …)  c.         Cultural lives today (Is it similar to the way they grew up? Why or why not? How is it different/the same? Experiences…) Do not reiterate the interviews word-for-word, summarize what the people said and use pertinent quotes from them to exemplify your ideas. 3)         Findings and analysis: summarize your findings (from both your own interviews and at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles.  You are welcome to use other resources (e.g. videos, blogs, websites…), but you must have at least the 2 journal articles. 4)         Conclusion and reflection – discuss what you learned by doing this project and any final thoughts. Graded on the following: The group work (10%):          Grading of the group, work will assess not only the amount that you participated in your group discussions, but in the quality of your input. I will also look at whether you contributed to the class discussion. The paper (10%):          Thorough and comprehensive: did you cover all the information requested? Did you find out a lot of information from each person that will provide a good understanding of their personal cultural histories?          Use and application of cultural terminology and ideas from the 2 peer-reviewed journal articles          Incorporation of additional research: did you support your ideas and findings with relevant research? Were there at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles used?          Writing: Is it organized well using the sections above and separating ideas with paragraphs? Is it free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors? Is the writing clear? Are articles, websites… correctly referenced and cited?