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Are there differences in how men and women observe male and female older adults?

Authors

  • Anahí Urquiza Gómez Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile
  • Marcelo Arnold Cathalifaud Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile
  • Daniela Thumala Dockendorff Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile
  • Alejandra Ojeda Mayorga Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This article is about the differences and similarities in the perception that young people make about older ones, this from 3 basic concepts: older people, older woman and older men. The analysis stands over the gerontology field, which highlights that lot of the handicaps of the older people comes from their social exclusion and from an unfavourable cultural context, rather than from the state of their organisms or metal condition. How gender might be involved in the configuration of these exclusions is the object of this research, which one was made with 682 young, female and male, college students, who answered a differential semantic test. The results show a generalized and consistent negative image about older people, in both sexes over the three concepts. Even there are some differences between sexes in the perception of growing old, these are not significant, so, the conclusion is that the social images about growing old, transcend gender differences, showing the strength that they have in the construction of images that may be affecting the expectations of the older people, in the present and or in the future.

Keywords:

Chile, youngs, gender, social images, gerontophobia

Author Biographies

Anahí Urquiza Gómez, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile

Antropóloga Social - Universidad de Chile. Magíster en Antropología y Desarrollo - Universidad de Chile

Programa Pulso, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - Universidad de Chile


Marcelo Arnold Cathalifaud, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile

Antropólogo Social - Universidad de Chile. Doctor en Ciencias Sociales - Universidad de Bielefeld. Alemania

Observatorio Social de la Vejez y Envejecimiento en Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - Universidad de Chile

Daniela Thumala Dockendorff, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile

Psicóloga - Universidad de Chile. Magíster en Antropología y Desarrollo - Universidad de Chile

Directora Ejecutiva. Fundación Soles

Alejandra Ojeda Mayorga, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile

Socióloga - Universidad de Chile. Magíster en Antropología y Desarrollo - Universidad de Chile

Directora de Estudios. Collect