SOCI 1251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Constituencies Of Iceland, Ageism, Population Ageing
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Conflict perspective particular age group or for a particular life stage. about the meaning of age, our understanding of it, and our responses to it. Age is both a biological and social classification. Age helps maintain the stability of society by providing a set of roles and expectations for each: there are social dictates regarding age socially and culturally defined expectations. Roles are reinforced by our major social institutions education, the economy, and family. Each age group has its own function or role the young attend school preparing for their adult. In the workplace, older workers have been discriminated against in favor of younger, cheaper, less experienced workers. Ageism restricts job opportunities for mature workers, as they are not offered the same promotion opportunities, training or compensation as younger workers. Feminist perspective into their middle and later years. The standards of our culture create more problems for women than for men as they transition.
