Test 2: Age & Ability

Question 1

What is Ageism?

Answer 1

Discrimination based on age. Affects people throughout their lives in diff ways (kids do, elders do, teens do). North American culture privileges youth and encouraging ageism.

Question 2

What are the reasons for ageism?

Answer 2

Tyranny of youth (over-celebration of youth)
Anxiety about aging (some ppl want to avoid the elderly because they want to avoid the idea of aging) -> can be also shown as push to institutionalize elderly
Social separation of the cohorts (spatial separation of the cohorts) we arrange our cities so that the very old and very young don’t interact very much

Question 3

What is social gerontology?

Answer 3

Study of aging

How aging is social and symbolic

Question 4

What is a cohort?

Answer 4

a group of people who share a statistical or demographic trait

Question 5

What is a generation?

Answer 5

people who have experienced similar historical events at similar points in their lives

Question 6

Baby Boomers?

Answer 6

Born 1947-1966
Front end boomer men were earning 30% more than their fathers by age 30 (high degree of social mobility) especially men, especially white
HIGHER EARNERS, BAD SAVERS

Question 7

Old Age Security?

Answer 7

Part of public response to elder care. You get this when you are 65 or older

Question 8

What is primary aging?

Answer 8

Biological factors such as molecular and cellular changes

Question 9

Secondary aging?

Answer 9

aging that occurs due to controllable factors such as lack of physical exercise and poor diet

Question 10

Elder Care

Answer 10

Is elder care in Canada a private responsibility or a public responsibility?
Private issues: health care, home care, elder abuse
Public responses: Canada Pension Plan (Average is $600 per month), Old Age Security (65 and older)
Elder care is generally treated like child care in canada

Question 11

What is Ableism?

Answer 11

refers to discrimination against those who have a mental or physical disability on the basis of preconceived, stereotypical notions about their limitations. Ableism refers to both direct discrimination against persons with disabilities and the unintended neglect of their needs

Question 12

Ableism in popular culture

Answer 12

Ableist language (using terms that refer to specific conditions as insults)
 Under-represented (in political structure, movies, etc)
 Able body casting (characters that have impairments are usually played by able-bodied actors)
 One-dimensional characters (treating characters with disabilities as if they don’t participate in anything outside of their disability)
 Conforming to stereotypes

Question 13

What is the social model of disability?

Answer 13

Impairment= bodily dysfunction
Disability= how that impairment is produced in a social context to be disabling (social conditions that produce something as disabling for example if you don’t read in a certain society or culture, then impaired farsightedness is not considered a disability)

Question 14

What is the medical model of disability?

Answer 14

Disability is a pathology of body or mind.
interventions are medical: research on genes that encode certain impairments, drug research, etc.
Knowledge comes from science
Using medical intervention

Question 15

What are three types of stigma?

Answer 15

character traits,
physical traits,
group membership