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The political construction of old age as reflected in online discussions
Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
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The political construction of old age as reflected in online discussions
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Bene, Márton
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Intergenerational conflict, online discourse, social construction, stereotype, pension system, ageing; youth. |
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The present paper examines the political construction of ageing and conflicts between generations. The process of construction is driven not merely by institutional actors and opinion leaders in the media, but also by citizens who talk to each other about politics. In my paper I have focused on the latter by observing online discussions that appear on the political forum Index.hu. Disagreement between old people’ and ‘young people’ evolved mainly about the pension system, thus the examination of ageing constructions is embedded in this context. In spite of its numerous limits, the method used seems to be suitable for providing hypotheses for further research. In the first part of the study I present the applied theoretical approach in which the concept of stereotype is connected with the concept of social construction. After that I focus on investigating the activity, origin and contents of the stereotypes that influence the construction of ageing. In the third part of the study the components of the constructions are demonstrated.
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Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest
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2015-06-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/130
10.14267/cjssp.2015.01.02 |
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Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Vol 6, No 1 (2015)
2062-087X 2061-5558 |
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eng
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http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/130/pdf
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