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Modernization Theory of Aging
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Modernization theory of aging holds that industrialization lowered elders' status by replacing the extended family, which gave them a role, with the nuclear family.
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An extended family relied on an elder's labor and knowledge; an industrial economy needs neither.
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This theory is distinct from Soc 0872's modernization theory of inequality; they share only a name — mechanism and subject both differ.