Ageism : stereotyping and prejudice against older persons / / edited by Todd D. Nelson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911089545703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-585-44844-2; 0-262-28051-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 372 pages : illustrations)
• Altri autori (Persone): NelsonTodd D. <1966->
• Disciplina: 305.26/0973
• Soggetti: Ageism - United States; Ageism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- I - Origins of Ageism -- 1 - Doddering But Dear: Process, Content, and Function in Stereotyping of Older Persons -- 2 - Ageism: Denying the Face of the Future -- 3 - Implicit Ageism -- 4 - A Social-Developmental View of Ageism -- II - Effects of Ageism -- 5 - Attitudes toward Older Adults -- 6 - Ageism in the Workplace: A Communication Perspective -- 7 - Ageist Behavior -- 8 - The Paradox of Well-Being, Identity Processes, and Stereotype Threat: Ageism and Its Potential Relationships to the Self in Later Life -- III - Reducing Ageism and Future Directions -- 9 - Acting Your Age -- 10 - Will Families Support Their Elders? Answers from Across Cultures -- 11 - Reducing Ageism -- 12 - Thirty Years of Ageism Research -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Along with race and gender, people commonly use age to categorize -- and form stereotypes about -- others. Of the three categories, age is the only one in which the members of the in-group (the young) will eventually join the out-group (the old). Although ageism is found cross-culturally, it is especially prevalent in the United States, where most people regard growing older with depression, fear, and anxiety. Older people in the United States are stigmatized and marginalized, with often devastating consequences. Although researchers have paid a great deal of attention to racism and sexism, there has been a dearth of research on ageism. A major reason for this neglect is that age ; prejudice is still considered socially acceptable. As baby boomers approach retirement age, however, there has been increased academic and popular interest in aging. This volume presents the current thinking on age stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination by researchers in gerontology, psychology, sociology, and communication. The book presents theoretical and empirical findings on the origins and effects of ageism, as well as suggestions on how to reduce ageism for the approaching "graying of America."

Democracy burning? : urban fire departments and the limits of civil society in late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 / / Nigel A. Raab

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911100987703321
• Autore: Raab Nigel A. <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-53019-8; 9786613842640; 0-7735-8069-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.37/8094709034
• Soggetti: Fire departments - Russia - History; Russia History 1801-1917; Russia Social conditions 1801-1917; Russia Politics and government 1801-1917
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 A Tale of Two Ministries: The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Reform of the Russian Fire Department, 1855-65 -- 2 The Implementation of Reform: Developing Urban Autonomy in the Public Fire Department, 1865-80 -- 3 Disagreement without Opposition: The City, the State, and the Fight for Control of the Municipal Fire Department in Kazan, 1881-86 -- 4 A Conservative Public Sphere: Volunteer Fire Departments, 1880-1914 -- 5 The Imperial Russian Society of Firefighters, 1893-1914 -- 6 Visualizing ; Civil Society: The Photographer and the Firefighter -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Nineteenth-century commentators often claimed that Russia burned to the ground every thirty years. In an empire whose cities were built of wood, firefighters had a visible presence throughout Russia's urban centres and became politically active across the country. Democracy Burning? studies the political, cultural, and social values of volunteer firefighters and reveals the ways in which their public organizations cooperated with the authoritarian state. Nigel Raab considers the important roles that nationalism, regionalism, militarism, photography, and civil society played in fire departments and challenges prevailing notions that volunteer organizations opposed the state. His analysis not only provides insights into questions about a nascent civic consciousness in the years leading to revolution but also reveals new and important information about other aspects of urban life. A skilled work of history and urban studies, Democracy Burning? forces us to rethink the way we consider large public organizations and their relation to authoritarian governments.