old age identity Flashcards

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parsons

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  • family may create and reinforce old age identity through disengagement process which is where older people lose their social roles once they become older.
  • elderly have less status in society due their children becoming older and retirement meaning their important social roles have been lost
  • may have been isolated from their children as they tend to focus on their own lives and marriage
  • Old age is socially constructed due to the disengagement process such as workplaces
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Carrigan and szmigin

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  • Old people in the media and advertising suggests that whilst older consumers are rising in number, they won’t be advertised on tv due to their stereotypes given.
  • Negative images of being old ‘smelly’ and ‘incontinent’
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sontag

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  • double standard within the media and aging
  • Women are requires and expected to stay youthful throughout their lifecourse whereas men aren’t
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landis

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  • Older people are depicted as one dimensional and are stereotyped in negative ways:
  • grumpy
  • Depressed and lonely
  • Mentally deficient
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Clarke and warren

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  • Peer groups may create and reinforce old age identity through inclusion into new groups by taking up activities during retirement.
  • Old age may be a time to make new friends and engage in new interests,
    active ageing is when this period of life provides new opportunities and be seen as an active stage
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johnson

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  • Labour market excludes older people by being ageist.
  • Ageism occurs in the workplace through the stereotypical assumptions about a person’s ability to perform a job in relation to their age
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voas

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  • Religion gives a sense of comfort when facing death
  • Voided people are much more likely to identify as religious because:
    • the generation effect
    • Aging effect
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the generation effect

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  • voas
  • brought up in a much more religious era and socialises into values was much more intense
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aging effect

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  • voas
  • people become more spiritual the closer they are to death
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hockey and James

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  • infantilisation
  • children are seen to lack the status of personhood and are separated and excluded from the public, adult world etc
  • link old age and childhood and argue that they are socially constructed in a similar way due to them losing their personhood
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infantilisation

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  • hockey and James
  • old people are treated like kids in retirement homes
  • they weren’t allowed to keep their own money, but they were given ‘pocket money’, had privacy taken away, being bathed
  • assumed to be quite innocent, not sexually active
  • this creates a self-fulfilling prophecy
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