Basic Lifespan Markers

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Lifespans and Cohorts 2 A cohort is defined as a group of people with a statistic in common, like having been born in the same year or a population group followed prospectively in an epidemiological study. The importance of cohorts traveling through life together can be viewed as a way people in society are able to cope with the everyday stressor that affect us all. “It is also important to consider some of the factors that vary across time that might have important influences on the development of different cohorts. Circumstances like war, famine, or economic crisis represent one family of influences that are often markedly different across age cohorts. Ideologies and value systems also change from decade to decade.” (www.understaningsociety.blogspot.com) An example of Socioeconomic Impact on cohorts can be explained by the ability or inability to be able to financially maneuver in open consumer market, access to necessary healthcare and as the phrase is commonly coined “Keeping up with the Joneses”. This impact divides cohorts into groups of the haves and the haves not with in this same class. Cultural impacts have varied based in the decade in which migration of immigrants from other countries to the United States were visibly increased. Gender impacts on cohorts can be seen in historical events such as Women Suffrage Movement in 1915. “Women's suffrage" refers to the right of women to vote and to hold public office. The "women's suffrage movement" (or "woman suffrage movement") includes all the organized activities of reformers to change laws that kept women from voting or to add laws and constitutional amendments to guarantee women the right to vote”.
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