AGE INEQUALITIES - THEORY REVISION
INTERPRETIVIST / WEBERIAN FEMINIST FUNCTIONALISM MARXISM / NEO POSTMODERNISM
INTERACTIONIST MARXISM
PROUT AND JAMES - WEBER - ARBER AND GINN - PARSONS (MIDDLE GRAMSCI - POLHEMUS -
-age categories are class- -older women face AGE) - -false consciousness in -youth is a non-
socially constructed and youths have low inequalities older men -based on gender roles the form of child benefits homogenous group:
vary in different societies income and part time don't e.g. Alisha Dixon -instrumental- men as and pensions being/looking youthful is
e.g. age of consent and jobs, middle age have replacing Arlene Phillips breadwinner + provider -elderly and youth don't no longer exclusive to
drinking age most power and peak on Strictly, but older -expressive- women question exploitation kids/teens
of careers and elderly male judges stayed have caring role through labour markets -they shop at
CARRIGAN AND have income reduction Sontag-supports as -men and women face accepting zero hour supermarket of style-
SZMIGIN - due to state pensions women less likely in pressure in middle age contracts for example pick and mix culture
-elderly are depicted as status- higher/visible roles as to conform but needed
caricatures and labelled youths have less they age for value consensus BOND ET AL - LACZKO AND
negatively as smelly and status, middle class Brannen-women dual -political economy of PHILIPSON -
incontinent have highest status burden/pivot gen PARSONS (OLD AGE) - age -inequality faced by
-media creators believe and can buy symbols -elderly have less status -those from lower some elderly was due to
public think elderly are and elderly have less ITZIN - in society once children classes more likely to wealth and not ageing
useless, lonely, status as can’t offer -women face a double have grown upland men suffer poverty in old age itself
dependent and unable to labour standard have retired so they lose -government state
learn party- -men’s status related to their most important pensions are FEATHERSTONE AND
youths can’t vote, employment but social role within family inadequate and lower HEPWORTH (E.G.
COHEN - middle age are women’s to reproductive -disengagement theory social classes are UNIVERSITY OF THE
-mods (smart clothes engaged with politics cycle discriminated against THIRD AGE) -
and mopeds) and and have protection -older women feel CUMMING AND -de-differentiation- life
rockers (leather jackets from trade unions e.g. immense pressure to HENRY - VINCENT - stages become less
and motorbikes) moral NEU and elderly are fight signs of ageing; -the way society treats -age is a potential clear e.g. Botox
panic vulnerable and cosmeticisation old has benefits for source of conflict, -de-institutionalisation-
-small clash on Clacton- ignored- charities like -ageing men don't find society discrimination and society’s institutions
on-sea gave evidence of Age.UK help the same pressures -social disengagement exploitation become less associated
deviancy amplification so -Business of Beauty is (encouraged to abandon -needs of the economy with different life
media identified this, PARKIN - Very Ugly Ted Talk: occupational roles) that create age phases-Uni of Third Age
negatively labelled, -young and old kept out beauty gap is difference allows young to take inequality
campaigned for action privileged status between beauty place in labour market -state pensions create PILCHER -
and authorities groups by social standard and actual disadvantage as too low -mask of ageing: elderly
responded segregation beauty EISENSTADT - -retirement age are judged based on
-presented as folk devils -elderly often GANNON - -youths need to go from constructed by appearance rather than
e.g. ‘hoodlums’ ‘wildest segregated in the -androcentric myths child ascribed to capitalism to control what's inside and this
ones’ media and employment -differences in ageing achieved status of adults surplus of labour leads to ageism
-leads to a self fulfilling process to do with -breaking away from
prophecy which BARRON AND lifestyles and family home is difficult + PHILLIPSON -
negatively impacts life NORRIS - expectations placed on emotionally stressful -capitalism needs to
INTERPRETIVIST / WEBERIAN FEMINIST FUNCTIONALISM MARXISM / NEO POSTMODERNISM
INTERACTIONIST MARXISM
PROUT AND JAMES - WEBER - ARBER AND GINN - PARSONS (MIDDLE GRAMSCI - POLHEMUS -
-age categories are class- -older women face AGE) - -false consciousness in -youth is a non-
socially constructed and youths have low inequalities older men -based on gender roles the form of child benefits homogenous group:
vary in different societies income and part time don't e.g. Alisha Dixon -instrumental- men as and pensions being/looking youthful is
e.g. age of consent and jobs, middle age have replacing Arlene Phillips breadwinner + provider -elderly and youth don't no longer exclusive to
drinking age most power and peak on Strictly, but older -expressive- women question exploitation kids/teens
of careers and elderly male judges stayed have caring role through labour markets -they shop at
CARRIGAN AND have income reduction Sontag-supports as -men and women face accepting zero hour supermarket of style-
SZMIGIN - due to state pensions women less likely in pressure in middle age contracts for example pick and mix culture
-elderly are depicted as status- higher/visible roles as to conform but needed
caricatures and labelled youths have less they age for value consensus BOND ET AL - LACZKO AND
negatively as smelly and status, middle class Brannen-women dual -political economy of PHILIPSON -
incontinent have highest status burden/pivot gen PARSONS (OLD AGE) - age -inequality faced by
-media creators believe and can buy symbols -elderly have less status -those from lower some elderly was due to
public think elderly are and elderly have less ITZIN - in society once children classes more likely to wealth and not ageing
useless, lonely, status as can’t offer -women face a double have grown upland men suffer poverty in old age itself
dependent and unable to labour standard have retired so they lose -government state
learn party- -men’s status related to their most important pensions are FEATHERSTONE AND
youths can’t vote, employment but social role within family inadequate and lower HEPWORTH (E.G.
COHEN - middle age are women’s to reproductive -disengagement theory social classes are UNIVERSITY OF THE
-mods (smart clothes engaged with politics cycle discriminated against THIRD AGE) -
and mopeds) and and have protection -older women feel CUMMING AND -de-differentiation- life
rockers (leather jackets from trade unions e.g. immense pressure to HENRY - VINCENT - stages become less
and motorbikes) moral NEU and elderly are fight signs of ageing; -the way society treats -age is a potential clear e.g. Botox
panic vulnerable and cosmeticisation old has benefits for source of conflict, -de-institutionalisation-
-small clash on Clacton- ignored- charities like -ageing men don't find society discrimination and society’s institutions
on-sea gave evidence of Age.UK help the same pressures -social disengagement exploitation become less associated
deviancy amplification so -Business of Beauty is (encouraged to abandon -needs of the economy with different life
media identified this, PARKIN - Very Ugly Ted Talk: occupational roles) that create age phases-Uni of Third Age
negatively labelled, -young and old kept out beauty gap is difference allows young to take inequality
campaigned for action privileged status between beauty place in labour market -state pensions create PILCHER -
and authorities groups by social standard and actual disadvantage as too low -mask of ageing: elderly
responded segregation beauty EISENSTADT - -retirement age are judged based on
-presented as folk devils -elderly often GANNON - -youths need to go from constructed by appearance rather than
e.g. ‘hoodlums’ ‘wildest segregated in the -androcentric myths child ascribed to capitalism to control what's inside and this
ones’ media and employment -differences in ageing achieved status of adults surplus of labour leads to ageism
-leads to a self fulfilling process to do with -breaking away from
prophecy which BARRON AND lifestyles and family home is difficult + PHILLIPSON -
negatively impacts life NORRIS - expectations placed on emotionally stressful -capitalism needs to
