The Social Separation of Old and Young: A Root of Ageism

Hägestad, Gunhild O.; Uhlenberg, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00409.x

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“…Usage of social media follows this trend (Dewing 2010). Social segregation of age cohorts leads to age-based stereotyping (Hagstad and Uhlenberg 2005). A common stereotype held of older adults is of the "doddering but dear" .…”

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Social media and senior citizen advocacy: an inclusive tool to resist ageism?

Trentham

Sokoloff

Tsang

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Politics, Groups, and Identities

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With population aging, interest groups demand that governments act to prevent a perceived financial crisis. Senior citizens remain frustrated in their efforts to influence the response of policy-makers. In an effort to strengthen their voice, one group of senior citizens, engaged in a participatory action research project, questioned how online social media could be used in their advocacy efforts. This query led to an examination of the literature with the primary objective of determining what is known about the use of social media by senior citizens for the purposes of social advocacy. The outcomes of the review revealed that very few studies specifically examined this question. Senior citizen online roles were depicted as consumers of health information or socializers with family and friends. Ageist assumptions informed the design of computer hardware, online formats and norms for social engagement. Senior citizens have concerns about the trustworthiness of social networking sites and while social media can exclude senior citizens from public debate, the authors conclude that the pressing issue is to focus on age-friendly design and supports. With these in place, social media can provide a venue for senior citizens to challenge ageism and influence public policy discourses.Keywords: social media; ageism; senior citizenship; advocacy; political activism IntroductionThe questions examined in this paper arose from discussions with a group of senior citizen activists involved in the participatory action research project (PAR), Exercising Senior Citizenship in an Ageist Society, under the facilitation of the first author and fourth author. This group of senior citizens (the term "senior citizen" used advisedly to convey seniors as participants in valued social roles who hold the rights and responsibilities of citizens) is actively involved in advocacy work focused on the provision of adequate supportive home services within the province of Ontario, Canada. In their efforts to be heard, the group is exploring the use of social media as a tool and venue to give voice to their message. Early on, one of the senior members and long-time activist (age 93) expressed frustration with the increasing use of online technologies for communication and advocacy work, which she experiences as a form of social exclusion. She lamented that while younger people grew up with this technology, many older adults are left "in a void" © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http:// creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. *Corresponding author. Email: b.trentham@utoronto.ca Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2015 Vol. 3, No. 3, 558-571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2015 and at a disadvantage when it comes t...

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Social media and senior citizen advocacy: an inclusive tool to resist ageism?

Trentham

Sokoloff

Tsang

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“…As the new generations seek to define themselves as different from the old, they adopt new words and expressions, for example, in the use of slang, an everchanging set of colloquial words and phrases that speakers use to establish or reinforce social identity or cohesiveness within a group or with a trend in society at large (Stepp, 2007). According to Hagestad and Uhlenberg (2005), this generational segregation is of great concern as it fosters ageism and increases the risk of isolation as people age.…”

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“…In the sociology literature, the characteristics that determine households' similarities are measured or proxied by age, race, sex, income, occupation, education, and family size (for the potential reciprocated exchange of childcare). See Priest and Sawyer (1967), Stutz (1973), Sampson, Morenoff, and Earls (1999), Clark (1986Clark ( , 1991, Hagestad and Uhlenberg (2005), and Coleman (1990).…”

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Residential Location Choice: The Role of a Taste for Similarity

Kiefer¹

2012

IJEF

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This paper examines the importance of social interactions on a household's location decision. The theory argues that individuals' utility will be greater when socially interacting with similar others. The hypothesis that a household desires to find a good community match is tested through the application of a discrete residential location choice model. In addition, this paper also tests Tiebout's hypothesis that households search for a community where their benefits from local public goods will exceed their local tax costs. The findings tend to support both hypotheses, indicating that a household prefers neighbors with a similar socio-economic background and somewhat larger houses.

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The Social Separation of Old and Young: A Root of Ageism

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