Old age

Question 1

Parsons

Answer 1

Elderly have less status in society, lose their most important social role within the family

Isolated from children who focus on their marriage and own family
Disengagement theory = disengage with previous role

Question 2

Carrigan and Szmigan

Answer 2

Older people grown in number but less likely to be portrayed in advertising

Question 3

Sontag

Answer 3

Double standard of ageing (especially in TV) e.g women required to be youthful throughout their media career + men are not

Question 4

Landis

Answer 4

Identified number of stereotypes in representations of older people E.g grumpy old man, Depressed/lonely

Question 5

Clarke and Warren

Answer 5

Old age time to make new friends + engage in new interests - inclusion into activity may define as old age identity

Question 6

Johnson

Answer 6

Ageism occurs in workplace + is institutions/embedded in practices and society
Expressed= stereotypical assumptions on competency to do a job in relation to their age

Question 7

Voas

Answer 7

Older people much more likely to identify themselves as religious…
Generation effect - brought up in a more religious ear
Ageing effect - more spiritual the closer they get to death

Question 8

Hockey and James

Answer 8

Old age is infantilised = seen as helpless/vulnerable/dependant and needing care e.g privacy taken away
To resist = older people act younger = behave childlike, mock staff, and poke their tongue out at them