Chapter 31 Researching Ageism through Discourse

The way we see the world is inevitably shaped by a number of factors such as culture, experience, language and values. Culture may be described as the customs, beliefs and values generally developed over time and experience, within a particular people or within a society. Language is one vehicle of cultural expression (Macionis and Gerber 2013). We understand the world by co-creating and co-constituting meaning and reality. The chapter begins with a brief presentation of the idea of social constructionism and ageism and then presents how one method of social construction, discourse, influences and mediates how we think, act and understandolder people and how narratives can promote and privilege particular identities and consequently construct and reproduce ageism in society.

• Tipo de recurso: Book
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
• Repositorio: Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/16913
• Acceso en línea: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73820-8_31; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/16913; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_31
• Palabra clave: Cultura; Costumbres -- Creencias; Expresión cultural; Construcción social
• License: Abierto (Texto Completo)