Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Ageism and age discrimination
- 2 Multiple discrimination
- 3 Older women, work and the impact of discrimination
- 4 Still disadvantaged? Women in modern pension systems
- 5 Ageing and social class: towards a dynamic approach to class inequalities in old age
- 6 Age, sexual orientation and gender identity
- 7 Age and ethnicity
- 8 Disability and age discrimination
- 9 New approaches for understanding inequalities in service use among older people
- Index
- References
5 - Ageing and social class: towards a dynamic approach to class inequalities in old age
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Ageism and age discrimination
- 2 Multiple discrimination
- 3 Older women, work and the impact of discrimination
- 4 Still disadvantaged? Women in modern pension systems
- 5 Ageing and social class: towards a dynamic approach to class inequalities in old age
- 6 Age, sexual orientation and gender identity
- 7 Age and ethnicity
- 8 Disability and age discrimination
- 9 New approaches for understanding inequalities in service use among older people
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The inclusion of social class based inequalities in a book about diversity and discrimination in old age is certainly no surprise. Social class understood as a system of social ranking and unbalanced distribution of opportunities, resources, prestige and power among social groups and among individuals is a building block of inequalities not only in old age but all along the life course. It is also a building block of sociological analysis and has been extensively explored in all corners of the world by a diversity of scholars interested in understanding the foundations of social organisation and social behaviour.
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- Age Discrimination and DiversityMultiple Discrimination from an Age Perspective, pp. 89 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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