Old Age identity

Old Age identity

Family
1. Parsons
  1. Elderly have less status in society they lose their most important social role
  2. Disengagement theory, elderly people disengage from their previous roles and 'harvest the fruits of their labours'
  3. Old age identity is socially constructed to be a period of disengagement so that society can function harmoniously
2. Disengagement process
Media
1. Portraying old people in a stereotyped wasy
2. Carrigan and Szmigin
  1. Depictions of older people feature caricature and negative images such as smelly and incontinent
3. Sontag
  1. Suggests that there is a double standard of ageing women are required to youthful through out their media careers and men are not
Peer group
1. Inclusion into new groups by taking up activities during retirement
2. Clarke and Warren
  1. Old age may be a time to make new friends and engage in new interests.
  2. Active ageing is when this period of life provides new opportunities and can be seen as an active and engaged stage of life
Workplace
1. Excluding them by being institutionally ageist.
2. Johnson
  1. ageism occurs in the workplace. It is institutionalised and embedded in practices and society.
  2. Stereotypical assumptions about a person's competency to do a job.
Religion
1. sense of comfort when facing death
2. Voas
  1. The generational effect and the ageing effect
Hockey and James
1. Old people are infantilised

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	Created by Yasmine King over 7 years ago