B: AGE Flashcards
16 year old’s minimum wage is…
£4 per hour
Give two ways young people are discriminated in employment
- Seen as cheap labour
- Restrictions on where they can work
- More likely to be on minimum wage
- 14/15 year olds can’t work more than 12hrs during a school week
Dowd (1989)
‘Strangers in their own land’
Who spoke about the ‘digital divide’ ?
Dowd (1989)
Percentage of discrimination cases filed about age in 2006
38%
Percentage of 65-74 year olds in insecure work
20%
More people are working past retirement…
…because they can’t afford not to
What proportion of homes with a category 1 hazard are occupied by someone 65+?
1/3
Percentage of BAME vs white renting late in life?
BAME- 29%
White- 17%
How many routine occupations say that age prevents them from doing things?
1 in 5
Grundy and Holt (2001)
‘burden of ill health’
Percentage of people 65+ with at least 2 chronic health conditions?
Over 50%
Percentage of pensioners living in poverty
16%
Fuel poverty…
10% of money spent on the fuel bill- have to choose between heating and food
Study by the CV Library (2017)
70% of UK workers agree that age discrimination is common
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing…
1,973 of their 7,500 respondents said that they had been affected by age discrimination
How many people over 50 feel as though they have been treated unfairly because of their age?
1 in 4
Itzin (1990)
FEM
Pressure on women to fight the signs of ageing
Men’s status is based on employment, women’s is based on her reproductive cycle
Arber and Gin (1991)
FEM
Age affects a woman’s status and power
Daly (1979)
FEM
Similar to global practises like genital mutilation
Parsons (1979)
FUNC
Roles need to be maintained to ensure social stability. Bridge analogy
Cummings and Henry (1961)
FUNC
Disengagement theory
Disengagement theory
A person’s abilities are likely to deteriorate as they age
Eisenstadt
FUNC
Different groups learn different roles
Evaluate the functionalist view on age inequality
Not everyone deteriorates at the same rate
Evaluate the feminist view on age inequality
- Women face different life chances
- Blames patriarchy
Gramsci
MARX
False consciousness
Phillipson (1982)
Elderly are a reserve army of labour
Townsend and Phillipson (1982)
Elderly seen as a burden- ‘institutionalised dependency’
Evaluate the Marxist view on age inequality
- Grey pound
- Assumption of homogeneity
Havinghurst (1990)
INT
Activity theory
Statham (2011)
INT
Grandparents provide childcare. Link to activity theory
Evaluate the interactionist view on age inequality
Ignores structural ageism
Parkin (1978)
Negatively privileged status groups
Turner
Exchange theory
Exchange theory
Western societies stigmatise youth and elderly as they are seen to not have what it takes to achieve status
Weber
Status comes from market status
Reciprocity maturation
Ethnic minorities kept out of high status groups
Powell and Biggs
POSTMOD- technology and cosmetics allow us to ‘recreate’ ourselves
Technology and cosmetics allow us to ‘recreate’ ourselves
Powell and Biggs
Disparity between ages closing, eg retro fashions coming back in
Featherstone and Hepworth
‘Burden of ill health’
Grundy and Holt
Men’s status is based on employment, women’s on her reproductive cycle
Itzin
Age affects a woman’s status and power
Age roles need to be maintained to ensure social stability
Parsons
Disengagement theory
Cummings and Henry
Different age groups learn different roles
Eisenstadt
Elderly are a reserve army of labour
Phillipson
‘Institutionalised dependency’
Townsend and Phillipson
Activity theory
Havinghurst
Grandparents provide childcare which continues interaction
Statham
Exchange theory
Turner
Status comes from market status
Weber
Featherstone and Hepworth
Explanations of age inequality focus too much on imaginary boundaries of age
Blaikie
Positive ageing
JB Priestly
‘The Mask of Old Age’
The mask of old age
JB Priestly
Positive ageing
Blaikie
