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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2017.Edition: 2nd edDescription: viii, 365 pages : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780262533409 (pbk.) :
  • 9780262140775 (hbk.)
  • 9780262339742 (ebk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.260973 NEL
Contents:
Origins of ageism -- Ageism in childhood / Yoav S. Bergmag -- Implicit ageism / Maria Clara P. de Paula Couto and Dirk Wentura -- Succession, consumption, and identity : prescriptive ageism domains / Michael S. North and Susan T. Fiske -- How our mortal fate contributes to ageism : a terror management perspective / Jeff Greenberg, Peter Helm, Molly Maxfield, and Jeff Schimel -- Effects of ageism -- Ageism and elder mistreatment : talking the talk but not walking the walk / Lynn McDonald -- Ageism and the helping professions / Sarah H. Kagan -- The nature and effects of patronizing speech on older adults / Daphne Blunt Bugental and Jessica A. Hehman -- Age discrimination and older workers / Barbara Griffin, Piers Bayl-Smith, and Jennifer Barbour -- Applications -- What's holding us back? : ageism in higher education / Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Joann M. Montepare -- Cross cultural differences in ageism / Ehud Bodner -- Combating ageism / Laura Shannonhouse, Amanda Rumsey, and Mary Chase Mize -- Contributors -- Index.
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Revised edition of Ageism, c2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Origins of ageism -- Ageism in childhood / Yoav S. Bergmag -- Implicit ageism / Maria Clara P. de Paula Couto and Dirk Wentura -- Succession, consumption, and identity : prescriptive ageism domains / Michael S. North and Susan T. Fiske -- How our mortal fate contributes to ageism : a terror management perspective / Jeff Greenberg, Peter Helm, Molly Maxfield, and Jeff Schimel -- Effects of ageism -- Ageism and elder mistreatment : talking the talk but not walking the walk / Lynn McDonald -- Ageism and the helping professions / Sarah H. Kagan -- The nature and effects of patronizing speech on older adults / Daphne Blunt Bugental and Jessica A. Hehman -- Age discrimination and older workers / Barbara Griffin, Piers Bayl-Smith, and Jennifer Barbour -- Applications -- What's holding us back? : ageism in higher education / Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Joann M. Montepare -- Cross cultural differences in ageism / Ehud Bodner -- Combating ageism / Laura Shannonhouse, Amanda Rumsey, and Mary Chase Mize -- Contributors -- Index.

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