Age And Discrimination

Question 1

Johnson and Bytheway

Answer 1

3 integral elements of power exercises of age

Question 2

Which sociologist defined 3 types of ageism?

Answer 2

Johnson and Bytheway

Question 3

Ageism

Answer 3

Institutionalised

- people over 70 excluded from jury service

Question 4

How is ageism expressed?

Answer 4

Stereotypical prejudices

- people assume that a persons competency is limited by their age

Question 5

What can ageism involve?

Answer 5

Assumption that the very old are vulnerable and rely on the young to care for them

Question 6

Which sociologist says that old poeple are often described in a condescending way?

Answer 6

Pilcher

Question 7

Pilcher

Answer 7

Elderly people described in condescending and derogatory ways ‘old fogey’

Question 8

Arber and Ginn

Answer 8

Ageism reinforced by institutional practises

- workers made redundant in mid 40s find it hard to then get new jobs

Question 9

Ageism reinforced through institutional practises sociologist

Answer 9

Arber and Ginn

Question 10

Why are old people less suitable for employment?

Answer 10

Slow, lack dynamism, don’t like change

Question 11

2006

Answer 11

Employment equality age regulations

Question 12

Employment equality age regulations

Answer 12

2006

Question 13

What have rising costs of pensions led to?

Answer 13

Media portraying the elderly as a ‘burden’ on taxpayers