Adultism.c (2024)

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What is the concept of adultism? ›

Definition. Adultism is understood as the oppression experienced by children and young people at the hands of adults and adult-produced/adult-tailored systems. It relates to the sociopolitical status differentials and power relations endemic to adult-child relations.

Adultism is driven by behaviors and attitudes that are based on the assumption that adults are better than young people and therefore entitles them to act upon or on behalf of young people without their agreement. What is ageism? Stereotyping and discriminating against people on the basis of age.

Adultism is the bias towards adults that causes discrimination against youth. First coined in the late 1800s, the term describes the ways adults treat children and youth, and is obvious through language, culture, architecture, education, healthcare, families, and more.

For most people, sibling contact and support increases steadily from early to middle adulthood.

Keeping 21 as the majority age didn't make sense when lawmakers allowed 18 year olds to vote, so states started using 18 as the age for adulthood. The reason the drinking age remained at 21 was due to a number of drunk driving accidents.

The child is subject to parental control of the parents until the child is legally determined to be an adult. Adulthood occurs when the child reaches the age of majority which is 20 years old in Thailand or when the child gets married. Until this time, parents have rights and obligations to their child.

"Ageism can operate both consciously (explicitly) and unconsciously (implicitly), and it can be expressed at three different levels: micro-level (individual), meso-level (social networks) and macro-level (institutional and cultural).

Ageism intersects and exacerbates other forms of disadvantage including those related to sex, race and disability, according to the WHO. A report from the World Economic Forum suggests that there are four types of ageism: personal, institutional, intentional and unintentional.

Roughly two-thirds of adults over 50 believe older workers face discrimination in the workplace, according to a new AARP report. Of that group, 90% believe ageism is commonplace.

The word adultism refers to behaviors and attitudes based on the assumption that adults are better than young people, and entitled to act upon young people without their agreement. This mistreatment is reinforced by social institutions, laws, customs, and attitudes.

How to combat adultification? ›

The term itself was first coined by Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) to amplify the combined oppressions Black women navigated in the workplace where racism and sexism collide as gendered racism.

Crystallized intelligence continues to grow throughout adulthood. Many aspects of fluid intelligence peak in adolescence and begin to decline progressively beginning around age 30 or 40.

Normal Physiological Changes in Middle Adulthood. There are a few primary biological physical changes in midlife. There are changes in vision, hearing, more joint pain, and weight gain.

Middle adulthood is the time of life between ages 40 and 65. During that time, some cognitive processes decrease, like reaction time and memory. But others, like executive functioning and wisdom, increase as a person's life experiences make them better able to plan and react to the world around them.

n. the attribution of adult traits or motives to children. Compare pedomorphism. more specifically, the tendency to reconstruct developmental phases by extrapolating from adult psychopathology.

There are several basic assumptions that underlie adultism:  Youth are troublesome and hence, adults need to deter and correct youth's problems and stop youth from “acting out”.  Youth are poor investments because they offer little to society.  Youth do not desire to become contributing members of society.

Remember, the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.

Hence Durkheim's definition: " A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden -- beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them."