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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."

Ageism. --- Age group sociology --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ageism --- demografie --- maatschappelijke vraagstukken --- pensioen --- personeelsbeleid --- sociale zekerheid --- vergrijzing --- #PBIB:2003.4 --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology --- Aging --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Social perception --- Psychological aspects --- Ageism - United States --- Seniors --- Attitudes --- Stereotypes --- Book --- Discrimination --- Imaging

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"We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious threads of various gender mythologies that have infiltrated or perhaps even define this faux-science. Selling stereotypes as scientific facts, evolutionary psychology continually brings retrograde models of sexuality into mainstream culture: it insists that men and women live in two completely different psychological, emotional, and sexual universes, and that they will consequently always be locked in a vicious battle of the sexes. Among these regressive arguments is the assumption that men's sexuality is urgent and indiscriminate, whereas women are "naturally" reluctant, reticent, and choosy a concept constructed to justify masculine behavior, such as cheating, that women have historically found painful. On its most basic level, The Age of Scientific Sexism explores our impulse to "explain" romantic behavior through science: in the increasingly egalitarian gender landscape of our society, why are we so eager to embrace the rampant gender profiling that evolutionary psychology promotes? Perhaps these simplistic gender caricatures owe their popularity, at least in part, to our overly pragmatic society pragmatic society, which encourages us to search for easy answers to complex questions."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Sex (Psychology) --- Mate selection --- Sexual attraction. --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Sexism. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Psychology --- Human evolution --- Sex bias --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Social perception --- Sex role --- Sex appeal --- Sexiness --- Sexual attractiveness --- Interpersonal attraction --- Courtship --- Dating (Social customs) --- Interpersonal relations --- Man-woman relationships --- Marriage brokerage --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Sexual attraction --- Sexism --- Evolutionary psychology --- Mate selection - Psychological aspects --- Social problems --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Feminist criticism --- Gender roles --- Love --- Sexuality --- Book --- Sex differences

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Stereotypes are beliefs about groups of people. Some examples, taken from human rights case law, are the notions that 'Roma are thieves', 'women are responsible for childcare', and 'people with a mental disability are incapable of forming political opinions'. Increasingly, human rights monitoring bodies - including the European and inter-American human rights courts, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - voice concerns about stereotyping and warn States not to enforce harmful stereotypes. Human rights bodies thus appear to be starting to realise what social psychologists discovered a long time ago: that stereotypes underlie inequality and discrimination. Despite their relevance and their legal momentum, however, stereotypes have so far received little attention from human rights law scholars. This volume is the first one to broadly analyse stereotypes as a human rights issue. The scope of the book includes different stereotyping grounds - such as race, gender, and disability. Moreover, this book examines stereotyping approaches across a broad range of supranational human rights monitoring bodies, including the United Nations human rights treaty system as well as the regional systems that are most developed when it comes to addressing stereotypes: the Council of Europe and the inter-American system.

Sociology of minorities --- Human rights --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Human Rights. --- Stéréotype (psychologie) --- Préjugés --- Discrimination --- Droits de l'homme (droit international) --- Discrimination sexuelle --- Discrimination dans les forces armées --- Droit --- Human Rights --- Préjugés. --- Droit. --- Sociology of law --- United Nations --- European Court of Human Rights --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Law and legislation --- Race --- Gender --- Stereotypes --- Legislation --- Policy --- Book --- Domestic violence

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The top names in the field come together in this collection with original essays that explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements, skinheads, and more.

Hate. --- History. --- Racism. --- Sexism. --- Sexism - United States - History - 20th century. --- White supremacy movements. --- Social Science. --- White supremacy movements --- Racism --- Sexism --- Hate --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Hatred --- Aversion --- Sex bias --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Prejudices --- Sex (Psychology) --- Social perception --- Sex role --- Supremacist movements, White --- Supremacy movements, White --- White supremacist movements --- Social movements --- White nationalism --- Skinheads --- History --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Political sociology --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- Hate - United States. --- Racism - United States - History - 20th century. --- United States - Race relations. --- White supremacy movements - United States - History - 20th century. --- United States of America --- Race relations. --- Social conditions --- Extreme right --- Book

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Sociology of occupations --- politie --- gegradueerde verpleegkundigen --- vrouwenarbeid --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- vrouwenemancipatie --- gebrevetteerde verpleegkundigen --- Netherlands --- 331.1 <492> --- Sex role --- -Policewomen --- -Public opinion --- -Male nurses --- -Men nurses --- Nurses --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Female police officers --- Police women --- Women police officers --- Police --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Theorie van de arbeidsverhoudingen. Human relations--Nederland --- Public opinion --- -Case studies --- Attitudes --- Case studies --- Theses --- Male nurses --- Policewomen --- Attitudes. --- Case studies. --- -Theorie van de arbeidsverhoudingen. Human relations--Nederland --- 331.1 <492> Theorie van de arbeidsverhoudingen. Human relations--Nederland --- Sexual division of labour --- Medical sector --- Book