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Ageism

Ageism in America
ABSTRACT

American society is obsessed with youth. Age is seen as an affliction and America's aged are fighting back. Science has made it possible for human beings to live well into their eighties and the aged are no longer expendable. The aged are not naturally senile nor are they incapable. They have to be given more opportunities in society and in order to get these opportunities battle lines have been drawn between the young and aged as America's seniors fight for the social and economic recognition that is rightfully theirs.
INTRODUCTION
From Thomas Jefferson's era to our time, the lines of change have been straight and stable. For the two-hundred years plus of American society things have changed at a dizzy speed, but with a remarkable amount of regularity. However, a movement, historical in its origin, began about the end of the 18th century and has continued into the 20th. The great historical wave changed age relations in several ways at once.......


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