Topic: Ageism in Japan

Order Description The following below is from the syllabus: Purpose of Paper: The purpose of this paper is to help you understand cross cultural perspectives on aging in American culture and subcultures or any other culture that you choose (Japan.) You should be able to discuss culture and use anthropological perspectives to explore aging. The final product will combine personal reflection, anthropological analysis, and library research. The best papers apply anthropological concepts and vocabulary to understanding issues related to aging. Introduction, thesis, discussion and conclusion. The usual. The ten sources, that I will upload later, will have to be included in the paper. These resources must be from my school library database. Which is why I will upload the sources. Again the topic of this research has to be a relevant anthropological issue which in this paper is ageism in Japan. University Students’ Views and Practices of Ageism Duygu Yılmaz & Sezer Kisa & Simge Zeyneloğlu Published online: 8 January 2011 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract Ageism encompasses beliefs (elderly people are ugly, bad-tempered and ill, etc.) and attitudes (the preference of being young over being old, etc.) which have the potential to turn into discriminative actions. In the present day, it is notable that the majority of those who discriminate against the elderly are young people. For this reason, the study was conducted with a cross-sectional design in order to identify university students’ views on ageism and ageism practices. The sample of the study was comprised of students selected by means of stratified random sampling in proportion with the size. 378 students (203 women, 175 men) participated in the study. The questionnaire form prepared by the researchers was used as a data collection tool. An analysis of the students’ views in terms of gender revealed that the students most frequently identified the statement “addressing the elderly with names like ‘senile’, ‘old chap’, ‘old man”’ (female: 94.1%, male: 88.6%) and the statement “ignoring old people’s experiences” (female: 86.2%, male: 85.7%) as discrimination. The difference between all student views was not found to be significant in terms of gender (p>0.05). When the students’ state of practicing ageist behaviors was analyzed, it was found out that students in general did not practise “addressing old people with names like ‘senile’, ‘old chap’, ‘old man’” (female: 94.1%, male: 92.0%) and “helping old people with their packages” (female: 92.6%, male: 97.7%). It was determined that students most frequently applied the behavior “teasing old people wearing highly colourful clothes” (female: 87.2%, male: 85.1%). Only the difference in the behavior of “not helping old people with their packages” was found to be significant in terms of gender Ageing Int (2012) 37:143–154 DOI 10.1007/s12126-010-9097-5 D. Yılmaz School of Health, Department of Nursing, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] S. Kisa (*) Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Gazi University, Besevler, Ankara, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] S. Zeyneloğlu Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey e-mail: [email protected]