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Age segregation: It needs more elaborate content to make it look more readable and understandable, such as adding information from around the world and not only from certain part of the world.

Unequal Childhoods: It is a little biased. It also only had information about family, and social class, but not race as it signified. I look to add more information on race, add information and interesting facts on childhood in and childhood inequality in some part of Africa.

http://grandparenteffect.com/what-is-age-segregation-and-why-is-it-bad/

Nsamenang, A.B., 2001, ‘Indigenous view on human development: A West African perspective’, in N.J. Smelser & J. Schummaker (eds.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioural sciences, pp. 7297–7299, Elsevier, London.

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age segregation in schools

age-segregated housing.

informal age segregation among adolescents are already included.

I plan on adding more section on aging in other parts of the world.

class, race, and family life has been added.

I plan add more to this already existing sections

02/21/2018

ARTICLE DRAFTING: AGE SEGREGATION AND UNEQUAL CHILDHOOD

Age segregation in the nineteenth century

Americans classifying both the old aged people and children as vulnerable population that deserved public protection, did not come to play until the nineteenth century. Before this era in the early America, children that had the privilege to go to school were not age stratified. Both the old and young had to work on the farms and in factories, with no age stratification. Even in the military, boys that are as young as 11 years of age, fought alongside the elderly.

Childhood to adulthood in Africa

Upon agreeing that social class really does matter in a child's life, there are few things that can be referred to in relation to having an unequal childhood. In Africa, the term social class play a lot of roles in a child's life. For example, growing up in an upper class family home, would really affect the way a child reasons, how a child relates with people, how and what they do in term of their day to day activities. For the middle class family, they live decently similar to the upper-class family, but, there are things that the children lack while they grow into adulthood. Finally, for the lower/ poor class family, Things are way different. Their way of life, their health status, their mindset, their ability to grow intellectually, their advancement and chances of success are quite limited and or to no avail. Besides the fact that they are of a lower class status, they live like they do not exist in so many communities.

02/28/2018 draft Unequal childhood

Natural Growth

Mostly the working class and the poor class tend to apply the natural way of child rearing. They mostly focus on their child's safety and discipline. They do not have scheduled activities, but wide range of activities to choose from.

Benefits of Natural growth

* They have more bond with their siblings and families.

* They tend to be more creative

* They grow up to be more independent

Disadvantaged of Natural growth

* They are not as prepared to go into tge real world

* They tend to have fewer chances of success

Concerted cultivation

This is known to be the middle class way of child rearing. They mostly deal with improving their child's talent, by having scheduled activities, help them learn and practice the language of reasoning, and the parent take charge most time in certain situations. For example, Their parent goes to their school teacher and voice out to them what is wrong or what they noticed about their child, where as, a working class, or a poor class would feel like they do not know what to say to them because they see them as people that are unapproachable because they are in the position of authority.

Benefit of concerted cultivation

* The children grow up to become adults that knows how to relate with people of authority

* They know how to navigate bureaucracy

* they know how to manage time

* All these skills are more than likely going to help them remain in the middle class

Disadvantage of concerted Cultivation

* They have hectic schedules

* they do not spend enough time with their family, neither do they create a kind of bond with their siblings.

Ontological equality

This simply means that everyone is equal in the eyes of God.

Institutional racism in USA

This is known to be the systematic white dominance of people of color that are operating in the university, legal systems, and political bodies. It is an advantage based on race where which the dominant group gets unearned advantage, privilege, and benefits, while the oppressed group is being denied.

Therefore, Race also plays a big role besides the parenting style that was applied while a child is growing up in terms of what the child become or how successful the child becomes.

02/28/2018 Age segregation


 * Age Segregation in the United States of America
 * There is currently a long period of increasing age segregation.Lots of parts of people's lives involves being with same age cohort. Industrialization brought an increased specialization of all kinds, and age was an important category used to sort people. Society expected teachers to be experts on a particular age group, family members to specialize in different kinds of work, and people to move through major life roles in a fixed pattern. The work force involvement of older women and men declined, and it was replaced by leisure retirement. Martin Kohli argues that over the length of the twentieth century, age was  enormously used to assign people to or prohibit them from particular activities. The result was a tendency toward a firmly fixed life course. According to Riley and Riley, this tendency toward age-segregated structures began to approximate the age-differentiated "ideal type" structure in which people gain their education when young, work in middle-age, and enjoy their well-earned leisure time when they are old. Age-based grades, teams, jobs, and leisure activities seemed normal; people were expected to spend major portions of their days and lives with people of their own age.
 * Age segregation in Singapore
 * This is a finding based the impact of age-segregation on the quality of life of elderly people who are living in studio apartments in Singapore. After a statistical analysis of a survey data for 390 elderly people living  in studio apartments, it was found that age-segregation have a humongous impact on the quality of life of the elderly people because the perception of the elderly in relation to factors that are most outstanding  to their quality of life is at variance with that of the policy makers. This simply means that there is a need for policy makers and service providers to review their existing policies,  so as to be more effective in providing housing options for the rapidly aging population of Singapore.
 * Age Segregation in the United States of America today
 * Two million or about 6 percent of the U.S. elderly reside in communities and housing that have been designed especially for their occupancy. Age-segregated housing holds many advantages for the elderly. One of the most obvious advantages is the things this age group have in common. Older people can relate to and sympathize with other older people's problems. Since the people are in the same age group they were born and raised at similar times and share a common history. The elderly can also decrease their involvement with a society that is preoccupied with the desirability of youth. Older people can "talk out" their fears of death and confront the frequent deaths of others. Most of the retirement villages are heavily secured. This offers the older person a sense of safety and protection. The older person is more likely to be noticed in an age segregated community if he or she is in need of help. The elderly people living in such a community also receive lower rates because of the quantity of similar goods and services needed by their communities. Some of the disadvantages of age-segregated housing are isolation from mainstream society, preventing older people from sharing wisdom and experiences with younger people and leading old people to have restricted sets of friendships and neighbors. In some elderly people age-segregated housing can contribute to low morale and feelings of uselessness and rejection.
 * Challenging Age Segregation
 * Some of the prospects for designing social life to overcome the entrenched practices of age segregation and the cultural
 * assumptions through the life course is through a steady flock of opportunities for cross-age interaction, some settings facilitate age-integrated social relations. The most distinguished  example is the family, in which children, parents, and grandparents frequently develop close cross-age relationships. Of course, age relations within families vary across cultures and subcultures. In the United States, lower class black families have high levels of interaction with kin, and older adults. This often provide significant care for younger members in the neighborhood.
 * Conclusion
 * The historically recent phenomenon of age segregation, rooted in a pervasive set of social practices related to the institutionalization of the life course, has rendered age integration problematic. This article has discussed some of the social and historical forces that have contributed to age segregation. We also have explored the potential benefits of age integration focusing on Gen X. Innovative programs designed to foster cross-age interaction have demonstrated the untapped potentials of age integration, thereby revealing the significant societal costs that may result from a failure to recognize and develop such potentials. Given their cohort-specific life histories and strengths, members of Generation X, now in their middle years, may be well positioned to contribute to such potentials. The extensive list of academic publications on ageism, combined with the relatively sparse discussion of the evidence of the benefits of cross-age interaction suggest that there is work to be done to disseminate this evidence and to spark the imaginations of those who could benefit from age integration in work, education, human services, and other settings.
 * Conclusion
 * The historically recent phenomenon of age segregation, rooted in a pervasive set of social practices related to the institutionalization of the life course, has rendered age integration problematic. This article has discussed some of the social and historical forces that have contributed to age segregation. We also have explored the potential benefits of age integration focusing on Gen X. Innovative programs designed to foster cross-age interaction have demonstrated the untapped potentials of age integration, thereby revealing the significant societal costs that may result from a failure to recognize and develop such potentials. Given their cohort-specific life histories and strengths, members of Generation X, now in their middle years, may be well positioned to contribute to such potentials. The extensive list of academic publications on ageism, combined with the relatively sparse discussion of the evidence of the benefits of cross-age interaction suggest that there is work to be done to disseminate this evidence and to spark the imaginations of those who could benefit from age integration in work, education, human services, and other settings.