40 marker- age inequalities

functionalists

• Parsons: Inequalities essential for society

  • hockey and james: underestimates youth subculture

• Parsons: elderly, less valued- no longer working and contributing to society

  • Blaike: grey pound

• Eisenstadt: transition from child to adulthood

• Cummings and Henry: disengagement theory

  • hockey: labelled as inferior

new right

• murray: underclass- youth

  • ignores structural factors

• sewell: lack male role model

  • reductive- resons for deviance wide ranging

marxism

• vincent: old age characterised by material deprivation- part time work reducued chances of private pensions

  • featherstone and hepworth: age not significant

• cambell: intergenerational transmission of privilege

  • ignores age as separate factor

• philipson: young and old- secondary labour market

  • laws protecting from age discrimination

• gramsci: bourgeoisie able to exploit- false consciousness

  • ignores rise of grey pound

• hall and jefferson: youth deviant- able to resit hegemony

feminism

• oakley: childhood and positioning of women

  • Wyness: Both men and women exercise power over children

• Gannon: women are likely to live in poverty

  • women over represnted in poverty

• itzin: cosmeticisation

• Wolf: retain sexual attractiveness to be treated equal to men

  • all women experience this patriarchal oppression

• arber and ginn: double discrimination

weberianism

• Townsend: prioritise supporting young, elderly ignored

  • Marxism: better explanation of factors like ethnicity and gender

• parkin: social closure

  • feminism

• Barron and Norris: dual labour market

  • func: cummings and henry

• Willets: Baby boomers- rich at expense of younger gen

  • elderly now more likely to live in poverty