SOCWORK 1A06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Raging Grannies, Elder Abuse, Ageism
16 Apr 2015
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Discrimination and oppression against individuals and groups based on their age ex. students aged 18; not getting a job bc not enough experience, purchasing alcohol, convenience stores not letting more then 2 students in the store at a time. Ageism works in the personal and individual levels and the structural level. Adult-centrism is the tendency of adults to view children and their problems from a biased, adult perspective . An adult-centric bias is evident when we measure children by adult standards, when we fail to suspend our assumptions about them, when we decline to see the world from their point of view. The child was seen as being innocent and needing to be protected. Social constructions are categories that we create in which some categories are more privileged than others (ex; the separation between adults and children/youth) Social constructions are historically, socially, and culturally contextual (ex; childhood looks different in different places and times, it is not universal)
