Ageism

When some people think about prejudice the automatically think about racism, but there are multiple kinds of prejudice. Along with racism, there is ageism, sexual prejudice, weight prejudice, and sexism. Sexism is important to everyone but specifically to women. Sexism is the subordination of someone on the basis of their sex (Crisp & Turner, 2010). Females are exposed to prejudice in the workplace, sports, relationships, and even in the military. We focus so much on women that we forget that…

I view myself as being independent and very capable. I know that gender stereotypes can influence how a woman specifically views herself in terms of being successful in what is deemed as masculine roles or leadership positions (Davis et al, 2005). Therefore, I am even more thankful to my family for not pushing those implicit rules into me but for allowing me to grow into a strong person. I have had to fix my worldview because I realized that women or girls in developing countries are not always…

When we all develop and grow from kids, we don’t choose the gender giving to us. As we grow the gender a person can have on the outside can be the one everyone sees. Our parents tend to lead us into the roles our gender in destine to be in. It’s a pattern that’s happening for many, many years. We, as people just try to stay on track of the norm and don’t think about the child’s inner thoughts. As a kid grows up he or she might like the same things as boys or girls. When I was growing up I…

Introduction As I had the opportunity to look through approximately 25 years of journal articles cited in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, an article stood out to me that I wanted to read further. That article was entitled Wisdom and/or Dementia: Is This the Choice American Society is Mired In? I have been working in Aging and Disability Services at Catholic Charities Diocese of Joliet for the past 7 months and have encountered my fair share of seniors with a variety of aging…

Our society has been created and structured with social inequalities of many kinds. The act of discrimination is one particular type where it is prominent in today’s modern society and historical times. Most individuals may not acknowledge the possibility that this type of act can occur everywhere and even in unexpected places such as at a workplace. Hence, the idea of employment discrimination is still very unfamiliar to people as most people tend to think about discrimination in terms of…

One of them was Attrition, the death of friends or family. My mother is not at the age where most of her friends are old enough to be dying naturally, so this did not play a role in her pruning her relationships. Ageism might seem to play a factor since my mom is a little older than some Ph.D. students. However, my mom goes to UALR, which is a university that caters to nontraditional students. Since nontraditional students are of different ages and circumstances…

Discrimination, Prejudice, and Stereotyping Discrimination and prejudice are a very prevalent issue in America. There are many different forms of discrimnation such as racism, sexism, heightism, ageism, and so forth. These ways of thinking are very destructive and should be eradicated. These issues are especially prevelant in the area where I live, which is South Carolina. With the shooting in Charleston, where a white man shot several Black church members, the Rebel flag was finally pulled…

2013). Nurses will be highly occupied caring for the older generation making it a necessity to have a better understanding and an open-mind when providing care to those of the older population. Besides health problems in older adults, they may face ageism and sexual-orientation biases. Code of ethics states that nursing care should be “respectful of and unrestricted by considerations of age, color, creed, culture, disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, politics, race or…

There are over 7 billion people on the planet. Each person has characteristics that make them entirely unique and have their own way of viewing themselves. Everyone has self-esteem, or lack of, which means the confidence they possess in themselves. There have been numerous studies conducted in the last two decades that have shown that an individual’s self-esteem changes as they age. The consensus has shown that as an individual’s ages, their self-esteem increases, remains stable throughout…

Motherly Love Teenage pregnancy and teenage parents do not have to be any different from adults. It all depends on how one views and treats them. According to a study done by the CDC in 2014, of every 1,000 babies 24.2 babies are born to a teenage mother. As a society people must be more understanding of teenagers being parents, and know that it does not automatically make them a bad or poor parent. Pregnancy and parenting is a tough job alone, while the teenage brain is still developing think…