HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Time Machines, Ageism, The Symbolic
30 Apr 2016
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Lecture 2: images of aging, ageism, and age identity. Viewer"s gaze: presenting an older woman in a sexual way is something that we are not often exposed to. The flesh is exposed, which we are not used to. We look at these photographs through age ideology. Chronological age does not have meaning in eastern and non-industrialized societies: person is seem as just looking different. Was not measured or quantified in pre-modern society. In modern society today, age is used as a marker and defines us. Age by culture = larger symbolic order about aging (age ideology) Age ideology = dominant culture storylines that shape how aging is understood in our culture. Finds that in western society we learn to see old age in negative ways. People are unable to see the potential for aging. People start to see their age identities in a negative way beginning mid-life (middle- ageism 30-40 years old)
