Unknown Story
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Teksti
- AGE STRATIFICATION
- All societies have systems of age stratification, whereby there is an unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privileges among people at different stages in the life course. This varies across societies and history.
- What is that?
- In both high-income and low-income societies, children are connected to work, marriage, war, and death in different ways. Contemporary Western childhoods are characterized by the fact that most children are protected from most of these most of the time. However, this is not the case for most children around the world today.
- In sociology, age stratification refers to the hierarchical ranking of people into age groups within a society. Age stratification could also be defined as a system of inequalities linked to age.
- The age at which people are defined as old has varied throughout history. Until several centuries ago, old age began as early as age 30. In poor societies today, in which life expectancy is substantially lower than in Europe, people become old at 50 or even 40.
- In Western societies, for example, both the old and the young are perceived and treated as relatively incompetent and excluded from much social life.
- A cultural denial of human mortality has emerged as a result of modern society's separation of death from everyday life. Many people nowadays die after reaching old age, which may explain this attitude.
- Ageism– prejudice and discrimination against old people – serves to justify age stratification.
- According to disengagement theory, based on structural functional analysis, the elderly disengage from social responsibility before they become disabled. By doing so, a society manages the smooth transfer of statuses and roles from one generation to another.
- That's All Folks!!!
- A high level of activity in old age provides people with personal satisfaction, according to the activity theory based on symbolic interaction analysis.
- According to recent trends, people are confronting death more directly and seeking control over the dying process.
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