Question

3- Some ideas are highlighted in blue. Let's check their meaning.
A- Higher education is not supposed to teach students about purpose. T/F
B- Colleges have always prepared students to get jobs.
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C- Higher education graduates students into happy career paths. T/F
D- College students do not explore their purpose and meaning so they end up changing many jobs.
E- Some colleges are changing to help students find their passion. T/F
F- Students have to reinvent themselves.
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Answer 1

rom chapter 1 1. Healthy older Americans often encounter discriminatory treatment when younger people assume that they are feeble-minded and thus overlook them for jobs they are fully capable of doing. How would each of the major theoretical perspectives -- functionalism, class conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism -- explain the dynamics of prejudice against the elderly? Functionalism (comte)- things are best described by their function and what it contributes to society disengagement theory- ageism activity theory continuity theory It’s their time to step aside and open up the jobs to people who are younger, in this way they are contributing to society as a whole. Functionalist may believe that the prejudice comes from an imbalance in the number of available jobs and the number of people who need them. The functional thing to do would be to narrow the amount of people by picking ones that would be better candidates. A younger person might be able to do a job quicker. They also might be willing to work longer hours and even get paid less because they wouldn't have the financial needs of an older person. Class conflict theory (marx)- social change happens by economic influences. class conflicts provide motivation for historical development. capitalism Class conflict theorists may see the prejudice as stemming from a capitalist mindset in which the old is discarded to bring in the new, better, more current ideas and innovations. We see this with nearly every product imaginable and it effects our way of thinking in ways we don't realize. Marketing in general in a capitalist country such as this is very focused on youthful vitality and the elders are no longer thought of as a source of wisdom and experience like they once were. Symbolic interactionism (Mead)- symbols and language the main forms of all human interaction. language allows self consciousness. we learn to think symbolically. We see ourselves through the eyes of others. Symbolic interactionists may see it similarly because a lot of the symbols we see and hear come from media which is hugely ageist. Also there is a difference in language between the young and old. Symbols are not exchanged as easily and there can be a sort of unease about this. The youth may think the elder speaks archaically while the older person may not know newer phrases. There is an aspect of unreliability and the youth has trouble s