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1
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What is ageism

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Prejudice or discrimination against the elderly

2
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What are the three theories of age

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  1. Disengagement Theory
  2. Activity Theory
  3. Conflict Theory
3
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Describe disengagement theory of age

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The elderly should disengage from society

  • *emphasizes importance of passing up on social roles to ensure social stability**
  • **functionalist view****
4
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Describe activity theory of age

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The elderly who remain active will be most well adjusted, they have a need for social interaction and sees withdrawal as harmful
**interactionist view**

5
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Describe Conflict theory of age

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Disagrees with other two and they ignore social class
-privileged position/ status determines what happens
Ex: low status are discriminated against

6
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What is the “second shift” described by Arlie Hochschild

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Women work a first full time job at work and then come home to work a second job cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the house

7
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What is the definition of sex ratio

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Relationship of the number of men to women

8
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What is sex ratio based on

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supply and demand

9
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What are some causes of sex ratio

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  1. Geographic mobility (Immigrants coming to US)
  2. Female Infanticide
  3. Health and Diet
  4. Differential Life Expectancy
  5. War
10
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What is the Guttentag and Second Theory

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The gender in short supply will benefit from supply and demand power.

11
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Facts about Guttentage and Second Theory

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  • social behavior changes based on sex ratios

- focused withing marrying age

12
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Why are women worse off when their numbers are scarce, but better when their numbers are a lot

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Because of the two types of power dependency

13
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What is power dependency

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The power dependency of a person is equal to their inability to achieve their goals outside the relationship

14
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What are the two types of power dependency

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  1. Dyadic power

2. Structural power

15
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what is dyadic power

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capacity of each member of a dyad to impose their will on the other
(gender with excess power will be dependent of scarce power)

16
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What is structural power

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dependent members of dyad seek to improve their bargaining position
(try to shape social structures to serve their own interests)
(Gender with greater numbers will try to utilize structural power to offset their disadvantages of dyadic power)

17
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True or false

Dyadic power usually belongs to the group with more numbers and structural power belongs to the group with less numbers

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false.

Dyadic power belongs to the group with less numbers and structural power belongs to the group with more numbers

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Examples when there is a high sex ratio (more men)

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FM lack power
FM seen as property
Marriage is stable

19
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Example when sex ratio is low (more women)

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Generates sexual revolution for FM
less gender inequality
marriage unstable
rise in women in workplace