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Section One: The Fundamentals
A) Keywords
Exercise 1:
Provide a brief definition of one of the padlet keywords for this week.
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According to Elizabeth Pike, the ‘Third Age’ is the phase of life that follows retirement. Pike states how the third age marks the transition from professional life to a life that has more freedom. This stage usually begins when one retires from traditional paid work and is characterized by the pressure to maintain healthy and engage in healthy social, recreational, and physical lives. Although it can set expectations, it is also a positive change from the previous stereotype that deemed elders as weak and fragile. The third stage creates a new age that emphasizes the potential and allows people to enhance their quality of life.
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B) The Social Significance of Aging in Sport
Exercise 2: Notebook Prompt
How is old age popularly represented today? Find an image online that you think exemplifies one defining attitude towards old age and paste in your notebook below with a brief explanation of what this image means to you.
I chose this snapshot from the movie ‘The Substance’ starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley as I believe that it does a decent job at displaying how old age (particularly in women) is portrayed. In the photo you see Demi Moore’s character all disheveled due to her desperate need to stay young through Margaret Qualley’s character. Her need to remain looking young and to go yo extreme lengths to obtain this are an accurate representation of how society devalues aging in women and pressures them to look younger through extreme measures. This often occurs through media and entertainment which is prevalent in the film as Demi Moore’s character is fired due to the company wanting a ‘younger and fresher look’, something that is highly common in the real world as young, thin, and conventionally attractive women are often plastered everywhere, reinforcing stereotypes, beauty standards, and expectations. |
Exercise 3: Notebook Prompt
What does the article (referencing another study by Dionigi) mean by its statement that sport can help aging people to simultaneously “accept and resist the ageing process” (572)? Respond by audio or text and find paste two images sourced online into your notebook showing how sport might help aging people to both accept and resist the aging process.
Exercise 4: Notebook Prompt
Who are the groups less likely to have extensive opportunities to take part in sports, according to Pike? How does privilege factor into aging and sport? (200 words max)
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Exercise 5: Padlet Discussion
Why do you think age discrimination is “reported more than any form of prejudice” with older people presented as a threat to social values and interests? Feel welcome to use video in your responses. Paste your comments (or transcript of your video) below!
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B) Older Women and Sport
Exercise 6: Notebook Prompt
What differences do you see in these ads? Which one is more inclusive? How is age represented or not represented in each? Answer these questions in your notebook.
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Exercise 7: Notebook Prompt
In her article, “Assessing the sociology of sport: On age and ability,” Elizabeth Pike references a “trend towards a ‘feminisation of ageing’, with many women living longer than men” (573). Do you agree that aging has been “feminized” in this way? How? Answer these questions in your notebook.
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Section Three: Module Mini Assignment
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