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B: AGE Flashcards

1
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16 year old’s minimum wage is…

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£4 per hour

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2
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Give two ways young people are discriminated in employment

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  • 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
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3
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Dowd (1989)

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‘Strangers in their own land’

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4
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Who spoke about the ‘digital divide’ ?

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Dowd (1989)

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5
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Percentage of discrimination cases filed about age in 2006

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38%

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6
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Percentage of 65-74 year olds in insecure work

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20%

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7
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More people are working past retirement…

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…because they can’t afford not to

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8
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What proportion of homes with a category 1 hazard are occupied by someone 65+?

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1/3

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9
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Percentage of BAME vs white renting late in life?

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BAME- 29%

White- 17%

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10
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How many routine occupations say that age prevents them from doing things?

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1 in 5

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11
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Grundy and Holt (2001)

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‘burden of ill health’

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12
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Percentage of people 65+ with at least 2 chronic health conditions?

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Over 50%

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13
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Percentage of pensioners living in poverty

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16%

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14
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Fuel poverty…

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10% of money spent on the fuel bill- have to choose between heating and food

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15
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Study by the CV Library (2017)

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70% of UK workers agree that age discrimination is common

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16
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English Longitudinal Study of Ageing…

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1,973 of their 7,500 respondents said that they had been affected by age discrimination

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17
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How many people over 50 feel as though they have been treated unfairly because of their age?

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1 in 4

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18
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Itzin (1990)

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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

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19
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Arber and Gin (1991)

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FEM

Age affects a woman’s status and power

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20
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Daly (1979)

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FEM

Similar to global practises like genital mutilation

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21
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Parsons (1979)

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FUNC

Roles need to be maintained to ensure social stability. Bridge analogy

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22
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Cummings and Henry (1961)

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FUNC

Disengagement theory

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23
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Disengagement theory

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A person’s abilities are likely to deteriorate as they age

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24
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Eisenstadt

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FUNC

Different groups learn different roles

25
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Evaluate the functionalist view on age inequality

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Not everyone deteriorates at the same rate

26
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Evaluate the feminist view on age inequality

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  • Women face different life chances

- Blames patriarchy

27
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Gramsci

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MARX

False consciousness

28
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Phillipson (1982)

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Elderly are a reserve army of labour

29
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Townsend and Phillipson (1982)

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Elderly seen as a burden- ‘institutionalised dependency’

30
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Evaluate the Marxist view on age inequality

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  • Grey pound

- Assumption of homogeneity

31
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Havinghurst (1990)

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INT

Activity theory

32
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Statham (2011)

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INT

Grandparents provide childcare. Link to activity theory

33
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Evaluate the interactionist view on age inequality

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Ignores structural ageism

34
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Parkin (1978)

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Negatively privileged status groups

35
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Turner

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Exchange theory

36
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Exchange theory

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Western societies stigmatise youth and elderly as they are seen to not have what it takes to achieve status

37
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Weber

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Status comes from market status

38
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Reciprocity maturation

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Ethnic minorities kept out of high status groups

39
Q

Powell and Biggs

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POSTMOD- technology and cosmetics allow us to ‘recreate’ ourselves

40
Q

Technology and cosmetics allow us to ‘recreate’ ourselves

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Powell and Biggs

41
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Disparity between ages closing, eg retro fashions coming back in

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Featherstone and Hepworth

42
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‘Burden of ill health’

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Grundy and Holt

43
Q

Men’s status is based on employment, women’s on her reproductive cycle

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Itzin

44
Q

Age affects a woman’s status and power

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45
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Age roles need to be maintained to ensure social stability

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Parsons

46
Q

Disengagement theory

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Cummings and Henry

47
Q

Different age groups learn different roles

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Eisenstadt

48
Q

Elderly are a reserve army of labour

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Phillipson

49
Q

‘Institutionalised dependency’

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Townsend and Phillipson

50
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Activity theory

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Havinghurst

51
Q

Grandparents provide childcare which continues interaction

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Statham

52
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Exchange theory

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Turner

53
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Status comes from market status

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Weber

54
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Featherstone and Hepworth

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Explanations of age inequality focus too much on imaginary boundaries of age

55
Q

Blaikie

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Positive ageing

56
Q

JB Priestly

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‘The Mask of Old Age’

57
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The mask of old age

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JB Priestly

58
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Positive ageing

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Blaikie

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