Lecture 18.5 Ageism

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Lecture 18.5 Ageism
Edit 4/3/97
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AgeismAge Inequality

• Two types
• Against older people
• Against young people
• All societies differientate based on age e.g.
• -juvenile crimes
• -discounts, restaurants etc. (senior citizen
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• -laws for driving, drinking, smoking, vote,
• -jury, marriage, presidents age

Many similarieties with ethnic and gender except
pattern changes with to age
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Graying of US.
see chart page 312 4th Edition--will put on
web problem our society not designed for huge
older pop discrimination
patterns against old difficult to cure
Myths of aged
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