Evidence of inequalities Age Flashcards
willis
Youth disadvantages workplace
Working class youths see their futures as working in basic manual labour jobs like their fathers therefore they do not aspire for more.
rizter
Youth disadvantages workplace
Young people are often on zero hour contracts and in what Ritzer calls ‘McJobs’ (unstimulating, low-wage job with few benefits, especially in a service industry).
Barron and Norris
Youth and old disadvantages workplace
young people and the elderly are more likely to be found in the secondary labour market which is defined by low pay, low status, a lack of chance of promotion and few fringe benefits e.g. no access to private pensions etc.
The national Pensions convention (NPC)
old age disadvantages workplace
1 in 5 (2.5 million) older people live below the poverty line. The majority of these are females living alone.
Johnson
old age disadvantages workplace
Suggested that ageism occurs in the workplace in UK. Johnson suggests that ageism is institutionalised and embedded in practices and society. Ageism in the workplace is expressed through the stereotypical assumptions about a person’s competency to do a job in relation to their age. Older people find
Greengross (2004)
old age disadvantages workplace
argues that ageism is embedded and widespread in UK society, it is often overt making it difficult to tackle. This disadvantages the elderly in the workplace.
Saunders
middle age advantages workplace
middle age identity is related closely to consumption. The media targets middle age as they are the group with the highest disposable income (due to being at the peak of their careers’ and they often define their identity by what they own, he called this conspicuous consumption.
Mac an Ghail
middle age disadvantages workplace
once they’d been made redundant from their steel works job the men in his study felt a loss of identity from their tight knit communities associated with their job. Their loss of role as a breadwinner led to them feeling a loss of status and identity.
Jacobson
Youth disadvantages crime
Found that children and young people in custody - three quarters have absent fathers, half had to live in a deprived household, half had run away, from care – “Complex backgrounds”.
Harding
Youth disadvantages crime
Working class youths in London face deprivation and turn to crime for income – Harding calls this a ‘Street Casino’ as they turn to crime and gamble with their lives – street capital is gained through committing deviance/criminal activities.
Financial Times (2015)
elderly disadvantages crime
The number of over-60s in jail topped 4,000 for the first time on record, more than double the figure 10 years ago. The number of inmates with dementia has risen, while cases of diabetes and hypertension have also soared.
Age UK (2015)
elderly disadvantages crime
of those targeted by fraud scams, the financial loss for older victims (those aged 55 and over) was likely to be nearly twice as much per scam as that for younger age groups.
Cohen
youth disadvatages media
discussed negative labelling of youths in the media E.g. the Mods and Rockers. He stated that they are labelled as ‘folk devils’ who threaten the basic morals of society. This can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy where youths ‘live down to their label’.
Thornton
youth disadvatages media
Expanded the work of Cohen but studied youth ravers in the 90s. She said that the deviance occurring was amplified by the media creating a moral panic around drug taking.
Griffin
youth disadvantages media
Stated that youths are labelled by the media in 3 ways:
Dysfunctional (meaning they don’t ‘function’ effectively), Suffering a Deficit (they act hard-done by e.g. financially due to increased tuition fees) and as Deviant (meaning they are norm and law breaking). This can create a self-fulfilling prophecy and also negative treatment from the general public / by those in ‘power’.
