GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Flight, Retirement Community, Intersectionality
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Target for social concern giving preference to certain groups. Expectations change through time and space: ex. Retirement wait for death at retirement home vs. staying active. Fixed in time: laws school, voting, drinking, work, criminal responsibility, laws can be culturally different. Associating places with age, capability: weird seeing an elderly woman snowboarding not something you see often. Expectations on children if you look older, you"re expected to act more mature. Expectations on adults if you look younger, you"re well received. Class, gender, race, ethnicity, etc. contribute to how we age. Just for men narrating age and sex appeal. Women strive to look youthful, and men to look mature and masculine. What is age appropriate for your partner: mediated through social norms. Clothing: beauty pageants young girls dressing up like women. Ageism cultural prescribed norms about appropriate behavior for certain ages and the belief that all people have the same chronological age have other things in common.
