sociology ch. 14
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| Age stereotypes | preconceived judgments and oversimplified categorizations of beliefs about the characteristics of members of different age groups.
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| What are the stereotypes for young and old people? | young are carefree and old are unhappy, evil, or even childish.
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| Infantilization of elderly | Stereotype causes people to speak to the elderly in infantile, demeaning tones.
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| What are some common stereotypes for the elderly? | forgetful, set in their ways, meddlesome, conservative, inactive, unproductive, lonely, mentally dim, uninterested in sex, etc.
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| Age norms | rules that spell out the expectations at a certain age. "act your age"
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| Age differentiation | division of labor or roles in a society on the basis of age.
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| Age stratification | hierarchical ranking of age groups. Some ensure different rewards, privileges, and power.
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| Age Cohort | a group of people born during the same period. They share the same historical experiences.
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| generontology | scientific study of old age and the problems that old people have.
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| ageism | discrimination or prejudice of a person based on their age
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| general equity | Whether one age group is unfairly taxed to support other age group
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| Life course perspective | person attributes, roles, life events, and sociohistory is viewed.
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| Medicare | Governmental assistance program to provide health services for older Americans
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| Medicaid | Governmental assistance program that provides health care assistance for the poor, including the elderly
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| Caregiver | Takes on the stressful job of taking care of an elderly person. Can result in elder abuse.
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| Euthanasia | Act of killing a severely ill person as an act of mercy.
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| Hospice Movement | Provide care for the dying and their family.
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| Age prejudice | Negative attitude about an age group.
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| Age discrimination | Different and unequal treatment based on age.
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| Quadruple Jeopardy | Phrase referring to the simultaneous effects of being old, minority, female, and poor.
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| Functionalist theory and age | Older people are less useful than middle age people who contribute to society.
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| Disengagement theory | derived from functionalist theory, predicts that as people age, they drift apart from society
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| Conflict theory and age | Assesses differences in age groups in terms of what they want. Competition still exists. Explains that children and old people is a way to bar them away from the job market.
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| Symbolic interaction and age | Analyze the different symbol meanings for different age groups. Also analyzes how people manage death.
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| Life expectancy | Probably number of years a particular group is likely to live on average.
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