Sociology 2241E Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - Ageism
7 Feb 2017
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Greeter jobs (seniors usually greet people outside grocery stores not a lot of status) The zimmer"s: the great granny chart invasion. Not much benefit to us helping older people. Robert butler 1969 (1st director of national institute on aging) 1969: process of systematic stereotyping and discrimination against people because they are old. Today: any prejudice or discrimination against or in favour of an age group (can reflect old and young people) Socially constructed way of looking at people based on their age. Tendency to structure society based on the assumption that everyone is young (everyone able bodied, don"t need at look at special needs) All buildings by law have to be accessible by wheel chairs. The ontario human rights commission: a tendency to structure society based on an assumption that everyone is young, thereby failing to respond appropriately to the real needs of older persons .
