Age inequalities 20 marker SI

Question 1

Prensky’s explanation on why older people are disadvantaged

digital social world

Answer 1

older people are digital immigrants so they grew up before technology so they are disadvantaged to younger ‘digital natives’

Question 2

Boyle’s explanation on why older people are disadvantaged

digital social world

Answer 2

older people less employable due to lacking internet skills

Question 3

Gardener and Davis explanation on why younger people are disadvantaged

digital social world

Answer 3

constant self projection and self tracking online leads to an obsession with their digital idenitity

Question 4

Twenge’s explanation on why younger people are disadvantaged

digital social world

Answer 4

fear of negative reaction to identity leads to rising levels of anxiety and they spend less physical time with friends and family

Question 5

Islington crime survey

crime

Answer 5

Older people would suffer more from crime as they may take more time to recover eg the survey found that when over 45s were victims of assult, they had to take more time off work

Question 6

S. Cohen - moral panic

crime

Answer 6

• young people more likely to be targeted by police
• there is a ‘moral panic’ over youth subcultures like mods and rockers
• so young people are disadvantaged

Question 7

horizontal segregation

workplace

Answer 7

Barron and Norris - dual labour market theory
- both young and old in secondary labour market
- middle age in primary maket
- slm jobs are less desireable to ‘prime working age’ population
- job security is low for old and young

Question 8

ageism

Answer 8

a process of negative stereotyping and discrimination against people purely on the grounds of their age

Question 9

Jenkins - ageism in hotel industry

workplace

Answer 9

• indirect age discrimination for recruitment
• eg online recruitment represents digital divide for older poeple
• selection of candidates was placed on replacing people with someone similar

Question 10

older adults are much more likely to be made redundant

Answer 10

‘rest less’ found that on an employment site for older workers, workers in their 50s are twice as likely to be made redundant those in their 40s

Question 11

discrimination against younger adults

workplace

Answer 11

Loretto et al found that younger people are often discriminated against eg poorer working conditions due to mistrust and lack of experience

Unison - minimum wage discriminates against young poeple, hashtage onewageanyage

Question 12

youth unemployment

workplace

Answer 12

11% of 16-24 year olds are not in employment or education