Ageism: Stereotyping And Prejudice Against Older Persons

There are some major and minor differences and similarities between the first article, “Age Difference,” and the second article, “Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Persons.” The topic for both of the articles was age in our society, which was one of the few similarities between these articles. Both of the articles as showcased statistics and useful quotations. Everything else about these two articles were different. The first article’s main focus was the different viewpoints of a person at work, at different stages of their lives. And how a company deals with multiple generations of workers working together under one roof, and wanting different benefits. Each generation of works have a different expectation that their company

should provide them with, and these were based off of how that particular generation grew up. The author talked about how a company can take approaches to consider everyone’s ideas and beliefs. These approaches included: health, financial motivation, approach for all, and personalized reward. To help push these approaches forward Nick Martindale included some statistics on how the employees would feel about certain benefits. As the employees go through different stages in life they want more life assurance and protection as they get older. Soon, the employees will only focus on making sure that they have saved enough into their pensions. The article also stated the thing that separated the benefits wanted between the generations were the voluntary benefits. While the first article’s main focus was on the work environment, the second article, “Ageism: Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Older Person,” main focus was on our society’s process and reactiveness to the stereotyping of our elderly population. This article has more hard hitting sentences and could evoke emotion out of some people. The sentence structure was more emotional and better worded. The first point that it makes it that age is the earliest characteristics that we notice in other people and that out of all the opinions we forms based off of various things, age is the only group that we will all join someday. The article had more of a psychological feel to it then the first one did. The author also pointed out information, that to an ordinary person wouldn’t even consider it stereotyping. Elderly in television shows. It pointed out that as Americans we use a person’s age as a guide. And that the stereotyping of elderly is more systematic than anything else. But the author also pointed out that it has involved into becoming a problem.