Category: A
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Agents of socialization
People from whom one learns sexual and other values, sexual values.
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Agensia
Failure of an organ to develop or grow properly.
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Age norms
Standards of correct or appropriate behavior according to age.
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Agency shop
In labor law, though a worker is not required to join a union, he or she mush pay his or her share of the cost of negotiating and servicing the master contract to the union, usually the equivalent of the union’s dues closed shop; union shop.
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Agency bill
In politics, a bill proposed by an executive agency.
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Agency
In psychology, the feeling on the part of a person that he or she can control his or her own behavior. An organisation which carries out work on behalf of another organisation, e.g. one which recruits and employs nurses and supplies them to hospitals temporarily when full-time nursing staff are unavailable. The act of causing…
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Age effect
The consequences of being a given chronological age cohort effects.
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Aged molester
An elderly person who molests children. Generally, these people have few social contacts with people in their age group.
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Aged
The state of being old. A person may be defined as on the basis of having reached a specific age. Sixty-five is usually used for social or legislative policies, while 75 is used for physiological evaluation. To have grown older or more mature.
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Age cohort
Pertains to a group of people defined in terms of the period of time in which they were born.