disengagement theory

(noun)

The disengagement theory of aging claims that it is natural and acceptable for older adults to withdraw from society and personal relationships as they age.

Related Terms

  • Growing Old
  • activity theory
  • Robert J. Havighurst

(noun)

The disengagement theory of aging states that "aging is an inevitable, mutual withdrawal or disengagement, resulting in decreased interaction between the aging person and others in the social system he belongs to."

Related Terms

  • Growing Old
  • activity theory
  • Robert J. Havighurst

Examples of disengagement theory in the following topics:

  • Disengagement Theory

    • The disengagement theory of aging claims that it is natural and acceptable for older adults to withdraw from society and personal relationships as they age.
    • Disengagement theory was the first theory of aging developed by social scientists.
    • Postulate nine: Disengagement theory is independent of culture, but the form it takes is bound by culture.
    • Disengagement theory, suffering from a lack of empirical support, has largely been dismissed by social scientists and gerontologists.
    • Disengagement theory suggests that adults become increasingly withdrawn as they get older.
  • Activity Theory

    • The theory was developed by gerontologist, or, scholar of aging, Robert J.
    • Havighurst in 1961, and was originally conceived as a response to the recently published disengagement theory of aging.
    • The disengagement model suggests that it is natural for the elderly to disengage from society as they realize that they are ever nearer to death.
    • Havighurst's activity theory is at deliberate odds with what some perceive as the pessimism of disengagement theory.
    • Compare the activity model and disengagement model of aging, in terms of activity level and level of life satisfaction
  • Conflict Theory

    • Provide an overview of conflict theory, including its most prominent theorists.
  • Elongation and Termination in Eukaryotes

    • This protein binds the DNA at its recognition sequence and blocks further transcription, causing the RNA Polymerase I to disengage from the template DNA strand and to release its newly-synthesized RNA.
    • When the 5'-exonulease "catches up" to RNA Polymerase II by digesting away all the overhanging RNA, it helps disengage the polymerase from its DNA template strand, finally terminating that round of transcription.
    • This somehow triggers RNA Polymerase III to both release the nascent RNA and disengage from the template DNA strand.
  • Managerial Assumption: McGregor

    • McGregor's main theory is comprised of Theory X and Theory Y.
    • Theory Y is in line with behavioral management theories.
    • Theory Y managers are generally the opposite.
    • McGregor was a lifetime proponent of Theory Y.
    • Explain Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y approach, merging classical and behavioral organizational theories
  • Drive-Reduction Theory

  • Freud's Psychosexual Theory of Development

  • Drive Theory

  • Labor and Birth

    • The last stage is the passage of the placenta after the baby has been born and the organ has completely disengaged from the uterine wall, usually within a few minutes.
  • Earthworks

    • Perhaps the most well-known artist who worked in the genre of Land Art was the American artist Robert Smithson, whose 1968 essay "The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" provided a critical framework for the movement as a reaction to the disengagement of Modernism from social issues as represented by the critic Clement Greenberg.
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