Age Inequalities

Question 1

Townsend

Answer 1

Elderly are a reserved army of labour

Question 2

Townsend and Philipson

Answer 2

That workforce has to constantly replaced by younger workers, and therefore elderly become marginalized, and status lowers

Question 3

Gramsci

Answer 3

Old people given concessions such as pensions, so do not realize exploition

Question 4

Parsons

Answer 4

That youth is like a bridge, and that for youth to cross into adulthood must behave difunctionally in order for a more integrated society

Question 5

Cummings and Henry

Answer 5

Disengagement theory, the idea that the elderly deteriorate and loose their abilities and therefore should be replaced

Question 6

Negative privilege status groups

Answer 6

Parkin- that some groups have a negative status, and kept out of high status groups, like elderly

Question 7

Turner Exchange Theory

Answer 7

Western societies- less status, gerontocracy reversed

Question 8

Interactionalist Theory

Answer 8

Cohen- moral panic over youth
Victor- lonely and dependent stereotype becomes reality

Question 9

Polemus

Answer 9

Youth are a non-homologous group- a supermarket of style

Question 10

Powell and Biggs

Answer 10

Consmetics and technology allows people to reconstruct themselves

Question 11

Arber and Ginn, Itzin

Answer 11

Age affects a womans status, more than man, double standards, mens status linked with employment, womans based upon reproductive cycle

Question 12

Gentleman

Answer 12

daycare in ipwitch, lack of visits, left to die by family members

Question 13

Kagan

Answer 13

Observed the old, still tend to be socially and economically active and respected, valued