According to 1950s functionalist theorist Talcott Parsons, U.S. society needed to find roles for elderly people that were appropriate for their age, and his argument was that this resulted from the fact that:
A) U.S. society tended to overemphasize youth and deny death
B) the elderly were unable to actively participate in what were once established social roles, such as politics
C) older people were increasingly unable to participate in shaping and defining their own social roles
D) younger people were abandoning their elders, resulting in a social crisis

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Parsons believed that U.S. society was too focused on youth and denying the reality of death, and as a result, it needed to find appropriate roles for elderly people.

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