Functionalists - View ageing in positive terms, Earl Henry 1961 - Disengagement withdrawl from society natural, Criticism of Functionalist ideas - Not all old people can afford to reire and are poor , Marxism - Old and young are significant parts of the reserve army of labour, Althusser - Critical of welfare payments legitimising the power of the working class, Marxists ignore - other aspects of inequality, Weberianism - Old age seen as negative old people have a lower status in society, Feminism - Interserionality various forms of inequality, Wolf 2011 - Older women have to remain attractiveness to remain young, Postmodernism - Age is individualistic. age discrimination is not an issue, New Right - Impossible to have an equal society. Older people should prepare for their old age.,

AGE INEQUALITY

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