HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Ageism
27 Nov 2013
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Age ideology: dominant set of beliefs and attitudes influence how people think about and understand the process of aging. People are socialized to think about age in specific ways (i. e. , progress and decline narrative) People come to understand their own age identities and bodies in negative terms beginning in mid-life (middle ageism) Children are socialized to understand childhood as different from adulthood or old age at early ages: socialized to fear aging and associate it with responsibility. Our culture of decline consists of time machines that socialize both young children and adults to the meaning of time passing. Western culture views aging negatively: focus on decline rather than progress, people grow worse rather than better, don"t look at how people have stayed the same, only how they have changed. Our age narratives become our virtual realities (gullette, 2004) Examines how and what children and adults learn about aging through cultural and social avenues (i. e. , time machines)
