age inequality weber & postmodernist
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- age inequality
- weber
- market position explains the low status of elderly and the young
- Parkin 1968
- negatively privileged status groups
- elderly socially segregated
- media
- employment
- living (care homes)
- Havinghurst 1961
- criticises disengagment theory
- inequality is about social interaction not age
- Statham 2011
- continued social interaction may change the inequalities faced by isolated elderly
- Turner 1989
- age discrimination through terms of status
- elderly and young have lower status as they are less likely to have material goods
- dependent groups have low status
- Cohen 1972
- moral panics explain the media inequality young people face
- Victor 1994
- media representing elderly as lonely, useless dependent makes it a reality
- evaluation
- fail to recognise the structural causes of inequality e.g. capitalism
- ignores institutional ageism
- postmodernist
- Polemous 1997
- youth seen as a non homogeneous group shopping at the 'supermarket of style'
- Laczko & Phillipson 1991
- inequality toward some elderly caused by wealth not ageing
- study on early retirement
- Hepworth 1993
- traditional explanations focus too much on imaginary boundaries of age
- Blaikie 1999
- positive ageing
- fourth age filled with active leisure based pursuits
- Powell 2001
- labelling causes inequalities to age
- ageing is like a mask
- Powell & Biggs 2000
- some people fight ageing with surgery & cosemtics
- age discrimination based on appearance
- Globalisation is a key cause of age inequality
- Polemous 1997
- weber
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