Engelsk titel: Whose ageism? The reinvigoration and definitions
of an elusive concept
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Författare:
Snellman, Fredrik
Email: fredrik.snellman@umu.se
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 59
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 16095401
Sammanfattning
This article deals with a critical conceptual understanding of ageism. It does so foremost by
problematizing
some of the inadequacies in a previously published article that introduces a new definition
of the concept ageism. Attention is devoted to (i) the prima facie that the ageism concept
is repeatedly underscored as a concept for older people exclusively and the "us-them" distinction;
(ii) what the concept ageism means and different ways of defining ageism; and, (iii) different
ways in which we desire to study ageism. The article finishes with a simple example in which ageism
is compared to a box of chocolates. The example is used to illuminate how we can carry out
anti-ageist work more effectively in society. That is, to help us understand and sometimes avoid
the different and relative inferiorities that follow with different ages, in order to come to grips
with the different and relative inferiorities that is often assumed to come with old age.