Age: inequalities and disparity of experience

Question 1

What did Marsh and Keating say about age ?

Answer 1

Different cultures attach different meanings and values to age groups

Question 1

What did Hepworth and Featherstone say about age ?

Answer 1

Discussions and statistics on age inequalities are too simplistic.
By just using ‘youth’ and ‘elderly’ it isn’t very elaborative

Question 2

How do young females suffer inequality due to their age ?

Answer 2

• FGM
• Femicide (killed because of their gender)
• early marriage
• some countries don’t allow girls to get an education

Question 3

What did Green say about age ?

Answer 3

• the UK is institutionally ageist
• The media creates negative attitude around age
• Represents age as a ‘crisis’
• E.g. anti-ageing products
• Older people are depicted as villains in the media

Question 4

What was Moore’s study on age ?

Answer 4

• 27 year old dressed up as an 85 year old
• Wore glasses, used makeup to get wrinkles, used a walking stick
• Portrayed in 3 different ways: Wealthy widow, comfortable granny, destitute bag lady
  -When dressed as the poor granny she got robbed and beaten
• people shouted assuming she was deaf
• she began to view herself as differently