Age Inequality 0.0 / 5 ? SociologySocial stratification and inequalityA2/A-levelOCR Created by: maisieessCreated on: 05-01-20 19:17 Employment Stat 2017- in the work place, 3/4 of 25-34 year olds and over half of over 55s feel discriminated against 1 of 18 Income Stats 16% of pensioners live in poverty and so do 3.5 million children. 2 of 18 Marxism Sociologists Marx, Phillipson 3 of 18 Marx Young people cheap source of labour 4 of 18 Phillipson Elderly are a reserve army of labour 5 of 18 Criticism (Marx and Neo Marx) Elderly work longer now which helps capitalism 6 of 18 Functionalism Sociologists Parsons, Cummings 7 of 18 Parsons old people struggle to get work because they aren't the best worker. young people are generalised as deviant which threatens jobs. 8 of 18 Cummings a persons ability decreases with age 9 of 18 Interactionalist Sociologist Becker 10 of 18 Becker Youths live up to the label they are deviant and the elderly that they are useless 11 of 18 Criticism Only a few live up to the labels 12 of 18 Webarian Sociologists Parkin, Turner 13 of 18 Turner Young and old suffer from low status 14 of 18 Parkin The elderly are socially segregated from society 15 of 18 Postmodernism Sociologists Cohen, Featherstone 16 of 18 Cohen Moral panics against youths 17 of 18 Featherstone Age brackets are imaginary 18 of 18
Outline and Assess Postmodernist Explanation of Age Inequality 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating Teacher recommended
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