This presentation includes summaries of research projects completed by Lauren Surprenant on topics related to youth and the elderly. The projects cover a range of issues including role reversal between Alzheimer's parents and children, teen pregnancy risk factors, eating disorders in gay males, ageism and sexism against the elderly, and the experiences of daughters caring for parents with Alzheimer's. The presentation provides titles, abstracts, and dates for each completed research project.
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL5
Research Proposal
Jamie Bass
Composition II Comment by Spencer Ellsworth: Actually Comment by Jamie Bass:
ENG102 A02
Instructor: Ellsworth
February 16, 2016
WORKING THESIS
Suicide has negatively affected the society, and unless there are mitigation strategies to curb this menace, it will continue to take the lives of many people in the society.Comment by Spencer Ellsworth: This is a good subject, but the thesis needs a little work. “Mitigation” is really generalized. Maybe more like “early intervention and general support are needed to help
EXPLANATION
Suicide is the act of human beings voluntarily taking their lives. Research has shown that it has always been caused by a sense of despair or hopelessness. All these issues may be induced by mental illness which may include Bipolar disorder or even depression. Suicide has been traumatizing and shameful to the bereaved families and many people in the society have always viewed it as a cowardice cowardly way of taking one’s life. Many suicidal persons have been haunted by their thoughts. I in many cases this is depicted as a very personal process (Goldsmith, Pellmar, Kleinman & Bunney, 2002).Comment by Spencer Ellsworh: Citations for this. Also, maybe consider that it is often an outgrowth of chronic disease or chronic pain.
In this paper, it is very much possible to look at what suicide is and the risk factors associated with suicide. It is also recommended in the research paper to dwell on mental disorder and substance abuse as risk factors that contribute to suicide as well as medical conditions and psychosocial states. The media and how it depicts suicide is also very important to research on as well as the rational suicide is a controversial statement in this topic. We will have the chance to look at the suicide methods and pathophysiology which is very important to note. After all these, prevention will be a key topic to note which involves screening for mental illness. It will also be possible to research on epidemiology, social and culture based on legislation and religious views and all about philosophy, advocacy, locations and some notable cases of suicide.Comment by Spencer Ellsworh: Fairly awkward sentence.Comment by Spencer Ellsworh: To make a good argumentation paper, you’ll have to focus on where intervention is failing right now, and how intervention can work more effectively. It’ll make for a great paper, but it’ll involve some legwork with current practices and funding of mental health intervention by federal and state governments.
SUB POINTS
Many people in the society are very much scared of taking away their lives and they are actually left to wonder how one can voluntarily manage to be suicidal. Some may be caused by illnesses with some visible symptoms and various ways to mitigate this act is by careful observation of these people. People in high risk of committing suicide often have mood disorders and .
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McDonald 6
Name: Sonja McDonald
Course Name: ENG 111-2902
Institution: Fayetteville Technical Community College
Instructor: Professor Stephanie High
Date: 17 July 2019
Child Abuse
Introduction
This research paper will involve the reviewing of the issue of child abuse. Child abuse is an issues that has been happening in the society since the ancient times. However, in the modern world, the categorization and the definition of child abuse has changed. Definition of child abuse will involve the inclusion of the different forms of the abuse, common modes of child abuse and the interventions that can be used for addressing of the issues of child abuse. There are different reasons as to why the research study about child abuse is important in the current world, due to the fact that the gathering of data and information about child abuse will help in the devising of strategies and ways of addressing this crisis. According to reports by different organizations such as World Health Organization(WHO), most of the cases of child abuse can be avoided or even treated. Forms of child abuse such as physical, sexual, neglect and even emotional or psychological abuse can be prevented through understanding them.
Rationale for the selection of the topic of child abuse as a research paper is to pass information to the people about the adverse effects associated with child abuse, interventions which can be used for addressing the issue of child abuse and the possible reasons for the increase in the cases of child abuse in the modern world. Consequently, researching on this topic of child abuse helps in the minimization of cots that would have been incurred fostering care, counselling in the family as well medical care. Rationally, most people still have the mentality and perception that child abuse is characterized by the old definitions of working in farms and factories as well as plantations. However, in the current world, child abuse has been revolutionized as well. Issues of sexual abuse and exploitation, such as trafficking, rape and commercial sex are emerging issues in child abuse. Adverse effects of child abuse are normally evident due to the fact that some aspects of child abuse such as emotional hardly heal (Jud, Andreas, Jörg M. Fegert, and David Finkelhor, 17). Due to the fact that issues of child abuse have been ignored in the society, analysis and research on this issue will help in the addressing and handling of this issue.
Background
Different definitions and forms of child abuse have been suggested by both scholars and researchers. Basically, child abuse or even child maltreatment involves the previously identified forms, that is sexual, emotional, neglect and physical. Most of the countries have been sensitizing on the issue of child abuse, with these four notable forms of child abuse having penalties and custody depending on the seriousness of the case. Different perceptions and ideas have been presented with regard to corporal punishmen.
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Teen Pregnancy
Robin Killingsworth
HCS/465
June 16, 2014
University of Phoenix
Running head: TEEN PREGNANCY
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TEEN PREGNANCY
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Teen Pregnancy
The problem at hand is the issue of teen pregnancy. Teens are young people who have just joined adulthood. The issue seems to be more prevalent in the rural areas. Sexual activities by the teenagers are on the rise this result to young girls getting pregnant. This issue is a big problem to the nursing practitioners in these rural communities; this challenge is intensified by presence of barriers to open discussions concerning teen pregnancy for instance , many rural southern communities social and cultural aspects discourage the open discussions on safe sexual practices it’s like a taboo (Weiss, 2012). The problem is important for healthcare administrators to study for cases of teen pregnancy are associated with increased infant and maternal risk complications and hardships, this settles more on costs related handling such situations. These teens are forced to drop out of school , lead marriages that break easily and in many situation they lead a life of poverty .this affects both the infant and the teen whose skills and ability to bring up a baby are insignificant in case where a concerned grown up does not intervene. Understanding how to handle those situations and challenges will increase the efficiency on service provision units dealing with teen children especially girls at the rural community health centers.
Research purpose
The purpose of this research was to analyze the essays written by high school students to gain insight concerning teen pregnancy rate in the rural community. This will help to establish the contributing factors to the problem of teen pregnancy eliminate barriers to successful discussions on teen pregnancy issue and implement appropriate interventions to manage teen pregnancy problems within the rural communities (Weiss, 2012).
Research question
Research question is one which is concise, focused and clear that surrounds the whole research. In this research, the research question was; is teen pregnancy a problem in our community?
Hypotheses
This is a statement that gives predictions of an experiment or research based on speculations on the expected outcome, based on the research problem. The following hypotheses can be formulated.
• Why is teen pregnancy problem to our community?
• Why is the teen pregnancy problem more prevalent in rural communities?
• Rural communities’ teens are the most vulnerable in teen pregnancy issue.
• Teen pregnancy education and contraceptive use promotion will ease the burden of teen pregnancy among the rural communities.
Study variables
Variables are aspects within the experiment that will be measured to show any change. We have dependent variable which is measured during the experiment. The independent variable shows any change that occurred .it affects the dependent variable. Dependent variable is pregnancy which the independent variabl ...
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Jails and Prisons
Looking inside total institutions
Definition of total institution
Canadian Erving Goffman coined this term
He wrote, “A total institution may be defined as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time together lead an enclosed formally administered round of life (Goffman, 1968: 11).
"Total institutions (such as prisons, boarding schools, psychiatric hospitals, concentration camps, etc. ) are distinctive and have much in common" (Goffman, 1968: 15) because, as Goffman points out, they depart from the basic social arrangements in modern western society "that the individual tends to sleep, play and work in different places with different co-participants, under different authorities and without an overall rational plan" (Goffman, 1968: 17).
Glimpses inside the total institution
It is very difficult to appreciate what life is like in jail or prison so I have selected a few videos, and stories for you
Please listen to Ismael Nazario who speaks about his experience in Rikers as a youth https://www.ted.com/talks/ismael_nazario_what_i_learned_as_a_kid_in_jail?language=en#t-671125
Also, please read a piece published by the Marshall project here https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prisoner
Finally, hear the story of Mr. Melendez who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. Now exonerated, he has visited UTA and spoken about this experience. He paints a vivid picture of those 17 years here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k6C7ZVhaHE
Why is working in prisons important for social workers?
Criminal justice system is marked by the confluence of race, class, gender, and inequality in the United States
Mass incarceration has been called one the most pressing social problems of our time (Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002)
The CJ system is fragmented
Over 50,000 different agencies responsible
Prisons account for the fastest growing segment of government employment (nearly 750,000 people in 2004)
Most people are imprisoned for non-violent crimes
Remember that Race, Class, Gender Matter
African American men disproportionately imprisoned
Women account for the fastest growing prison population
African American women: 571% increase in 20 years
Latinas: 131% increase in 20 years
Caucasian women: 75% increase in 20 years
More women are incarcerated per capita for drug crimes than men (about 34% of women and 19% of men)
60% of men and 40% of women unemployed at arrest, 1/3 earned less than 5000$ last year.
Privatization of prisons – total institutions and turning a profit for shareholders
Beck, A.J. (2000). Prisoners in 1999. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics; Guerino, P., Harrison, P.M., & Sabol, P.M. (2011). Prisoners in 2010. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics. Prisoners in 1999 available online here: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/p99.pdf
Private prisons in Te ...
Jails and PrisonsLooking inside total institutionsDefini.docxdonnajames55
Jails and Prisons
Looking inside total institutions
Definition of total institution
Canadian Erving Goffman coined this term
He wrote, “A total institution may be defined as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated individuals cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time together lead an enclosed formally administered round of life (Goffman, 1968: 11).
"Total institutions (such as prisons, boarding schools, psychiatric hospitals, concentration camps, etc. ) are distinctive and have much in common" (Goffman, 1968: 15) because, as Goffman points out, they depart from the basic social arrangements in modern western society "that the individual tends to sleep, play and work in different places with different co-participants, under different authorities and without an overall rational plan" (Goffman, 1968: 17).
Glimpses inside the total institution
It is very difficult to appreciate what life is like in jail or prison so I have selected a few videos, and stories for you
Please listen to Ismael Nazario who speaks about his experience in Rikers as a youth https://www.ted.com/talks/ismael_nazario_what_i_learned_as_a_kid_in_jail?language=en#t-671125
Also, please read a piece published by the Marshall project here https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prisoner
Finally, hear the story of Mr. Melendez who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. Now exonerated, he has visited UTA and spoken about this experience. He paints a vivid picture of those 17 years here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k6C7ZVhaHE
Why is working in prisons important for social workers?
Criminal justice system is marked by the confluence of race, class, gender, and inequality in the United States
Mass incarceration has been called one the most pressing social problems of our time (Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002)
The CJ system is fragmented
Over 50,000 different agencies responsible
Prisons account for the fastest growing segment of government employment (nearly 750,000 people in 2004)
Most people are imprisoned for non-violent crimes
Remember that Race, Class, Gender Matter
African American men disproportionately imprisoned
Women account for the fastest growing prison population
African American women: 571% increase in 20 years
Latinas: 131% increase in 20 years
Caucasian women: 75% increase in 20 years
More women are incarcerated per capita for drug crimes than men (about 34% of women and 19% of men)
60% of men and 40% of women unemployed at arrest, 1/3 earned less than 5000$ last year.
Privatization of prisons – total institutions and turning a profit for shareholders
Beck, A.J. (2000). Prisoners in 1999. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics; Guerino, P., Harrison, P.M., & Sabol, P.M. (2011). Prisoners in 2010. Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics. Prisoners in 1999 available online here: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/p99.pdf
Private prisons in Te.
Social Interaction, Loneliness and Quality of Life in Healthcare and Older Ad...Innovations2Solutions
The purpose of this report is to increase understanding of loneliness and social interaction to improve the quality of life of patients, older adults and carers, so they can progress and the organisations near them can perform better.
TRAVAILS OF MOTHER WITH TERMINALLY ILL CHILD: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDYAJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: This qualitative multiple case study explored the experiences of five mothers with a terminally
ill child and their coping strategies while in the hospital for an extended period. The findings revealed that upon
their child’s illness, the mother’s world seemed to crumble, causing them to shower their children with love and
seek Divine intervention while trying to be strong for their child. The participants stressed the importance of
seeking refuge in the lord, seeking help from government agencies, and remaining positive and hopeful. The
study’s implication suggest that it could serve as a model for medical social workers handling challenging cases
and parents of terminally ill children who persevere through difficulties over several years. This study
contributes to the literature on social work and the struggles faced by mothers with terminally ill children
globally.
KEYWORDS: Social work, travails, mother w/ terminally ill child, multi-case study, Philippines
Sibling Birth Spacing Influence on Extroversion, Introversion and Aggressiven...inventionjournals
Sibling spacing refers to the birth interval between consecutive children in the family. The family is the basic unit of socialization. Family interactions and other dynamics such as birth order and sibling spacing shape the personality of children. This study investigated the relationship between sibling birth spacing and, extroversion and introversion characteristics of adolescents in Nairobi, Kenya. The study adopted mixed methods research paradigm with the correlation design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select three schools for the study sample and participants. From each of the three schools, twenty five students were selected to make a total sample of 75 participants. The data collection instruments for the study were standardized questionnaires and observation guides. Data was collected and analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis and Analysis of Variance. The study concluded that close sibling spacing tends to produce extraverted and highly aggressive children while wide sibling spacing tends to produce introverted and less aggressive children. The study further found that the only children, ranked highest in introversion and, lowest in aggressiveness and extraversion. The study recommended that sibling spacing knowledge should be used by school career guidance masters as locally available method of predicting personality.
2. This presentation includes the titles, abstracts and dates of the completed projects.
TITLES
• Critical Analysis of Role Reversal of Alzheimer’s Parents and Their Children
• Felt Obligation and its influence the involvement of caregivers with an
Alzheimer’s/dementia afflicted parent in a care facility
• Positive Youth Development through a Teen Club/Center
• Experiences of adult daughters caring for Alzheimer’s afflicted parents in
Midwestern assisted care facilities
3. TITLES (CONT.)
• Serving the Elderly: Alzheimer’s Association, Alternatives & Milestones:
Report on Area Agencies on Aging
• Risk Factors and Influences of Teen Pregnancy
• Teens: Sexual behaviors and prevention
• Ethics of Assisted Suicide
• Eating Disorders in a Twice Hidden Population (young, gay males)
4. TITLES (CONT.)
• Ecological Approach to Deviancy
• Ageism and Sexism: Discrimination Against the Elderly
• Elders Have Sex Too
• Marginalized in Macomb: Participatory Action Research Project with
Black teens of Macomb, IL
5. ELDERLY Sept 2015
Critical Analysis of Role Reversal of
Alzheimer’s Parents and Their Children
INTRODUCTION: Role reversal, when one takes on an opposite role, in this case when the child takes on the parental
responsibilities towards and for the parent, in a manner beyond social norms (Mayseless, Barthholomew, K., Henderson, A.,
& Trinke, S., 2004) . As the research began searching within this topic, a simple Summon search resulted in approximately
150,000 results in articles since 2000. Yet, using the same method with the Alzheimer’s variable, just over 100 articles
resulted. Following the study of a non-Alzheimer’s disease role reversal article, the disparity and contradiction between non-
AD and AD caregivers and role reversal is glaring. Funk (2010) states that participaints strongly criticize caregivers who
engage in role reversal, as “overly bossy, bullies …or selfish” (p. 60). Non-AD caregivers are encouraged to allow their
recipients to make their own decisions, as well as guided to allow the care recipient to be responsible for those decisions
(Funk, 2010).
On the other hand, within AD’s progression, however, this becomes a normative element of the caregiving process. Dura,
Stukendurg, and Kiecolt-Glaser (1991) describe role reversal between the adult child and cognitively impaired parent as a
“major developmental transition”. Such an approach with a cognitive deteriorating individual would be in contradiction to the
care recipient’s ability, as well as safety. Dunham and Cannon (2008) articulates the struggle of having a cognitively impaired
may decisions with the term “paradox of power” (p. 45). This disparity indicates another gap in the research.
6. ELDERLY June 2015
Felt Obligation and its influence the involvement
of caregivers with an Alzheimer’s/dementia afflicted parent
in a care facility
ABSTRACT: Caring for a terminally ill parent with Alzheimer’s/dementia is difficult
physically and emotionally, especially as caregiving for early-stage Alzheimer’s patients
tends to fall to family and friends. Due to the nature of this ailment, its victims
eventually become unable to live alone, progressing to requiring full care. It is an
erroneous presumption that caregiving ends upon admission to a care facility (Bern-
Klug & Forbes-Thompson, 2008). What motivates caregivers to continue to provide
care to someone when that person is being cared for within a facility and, due to
memory care issues, will not remember whether the caregiver was or was not present?
The study will evaluate whether Felt Obligation drives the motivation to do so.
7. YOUTH June 2015
Positive Youth Development through a
Teen Club/Center
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (excerpt): The Outlet will be the over-arching umbrella
program, housing specific individual mini-programs within it. This proposal will
address the primary and initial program, the weekend night-club like hang out time,
where safe adults are available to talk and build relationships with adolescents.
There is no specific scripted program, just “hang out” time. This program will help
teens develop friendships with adults that they are able to talk to about life’s
problems and challenges, develop skills for problem solving (Shure, 2014) and make
better life choices. These outputs will serve to reduce teen deviancy and teen
pregnancies caused by a perception of nothing to do.
8. ELDERLY June 2015
Experiences of adult daughters caring for Alzheimer’s
afflicted parents in Midwestern assisted care facilities
ABSTRACT: The number of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease continues
to increase (Alzheimer's Association, 2015), and will continue to do so until there is a
cure. As the number afflicted increases, so do the number of caregivers. Researchers
have stated that without this added care provision, the care industry would be
bankrupted (Sorrell, Moving beyond caregiver burden: Identifying helpful
interventions for family caregivers, 2014). Unfortunately, due to the stigma associated
with Alzheimer’s disease (Zawadzki, Mondon, Peru, Hommet, & Constans , 2011),
many caregivers end up feeling isolated, described as the hidden victims of Alzheimer’s
disease (Berger, et al., 2005). The goal of this study is to help them not be so hidden.
• Note: this was a methodological sampling for the upcoming dissertation
9. ELDERLY May 2015
Serving the Elderly: Alzheimer’s Association, Alternatives
& Milestones: Report on Area Agencies on Aging
ABSTRACT: A number of agencies exist to serve the ageing population. This paper compares
and contrasts three Quad Cities area agencies: the Davenport local office of the Alzheimer’s
Association, Alternatives [formerly known as Alternatives for Older Adults] and Milestones:
Area Agency on Aging. Although they may serve the same population overall, focus and
program delivery vary. The Alzheimer’s Association primarily serves the family, in part,
because the family is the gateway to services (Wiles, Leibing, Reeve, & Allen, 2012) for an
Alzheimer’s parent. The Association utilizes Pearlin’s Caregiver Stress Model (Pearlin, Mullan,
Semple, & Skaff , 1990), providing resources and support for caregivers in an effort to relieve
the levels and influence of caregiver stress. Alternatives and Milestones both seek to serve the
elderly individual, facilitating aging in place, a model of Continuity Theory (Wacker & Roberto,
2008), empowering the aged individual to live at home as long as possible.
10. YOUTH Dec 2014
Risk Factors and Influences of Teen Pregnancy
• Teen pregnancy is a growing crisis within the United States. In addition to the
increased socioeconomic struggles to the parents, society as a whole carries the
burden. This paper will consider all the risk factors, which reach far beyond the act
of sex by a teenager. Some risk factors are biological, such as minority race or those
with a cognitive deficit. Some are culturally driven, such as the influence of
entertainment and internet media. However, researchers have begun to look at the
ecological influences upon the child; the largest influencer of teen pregnancy, as well
as prevention of teen pregnancy, resides in the child’s home. A stable home life is
the largest influence in preventing teen pregnancy.
11. YOUTH Dec 2014
Teens: Sexual behaviors and prevention
ABSTRACT: The sexual behaviors of teens and the outcomes of those behaviors
such as sexual addictions and teen pregnancies are subjects of concern. Educational
models have been both presented and proven ineffective. Empirical research has
discovered adolescents are not driven to sexual behaviors solely out of risky behaviors.
The medical influence behind the poor judgments indicates dysfunction within the
frontal cortex hinders multi-level processing. In addition, teens often use sex – or
other addictive behaviors – as coping mechanisms to life stressors. This study presents
a preventative program, C.O.P.E. - Consider Other Possible Endings, to train and
equip teens with healthy coping mechanisms applicable to any addictive behavior. The
educational model, L8r (LATER), teaches the effects of sex-too-soon through
presenting the medical facts in a technologically interactive model.
12. ELDERLY May 2014
Ethics of Assisted Suicide
ABSTRACT: Assisted suicide is a controversial topic that pits right to life against dignity to
die. Dr. Jack Kevorkian brought the debate into the public spectrum in the 1990’s, but that
erroneously implies this is a new issue. Assisted suicide has been controversial since antiquity.
In ancient Greece, Athenian city magistrates had poison available for anyone who wanted to
die. On the other end of the controversy is the Hippocratic Oath, written in ancient Greece,
prohibiting euthanasia (Historical timeline: History of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide,
2013). Four states and four nations have legalized physician-assisted suicide. Yet, the opposition
is strong, indicated by the majority of countries and states that refuse to legalize physician-
assisted suicide. As with most controversial topics, there are valid points on both sides of the
argument. This paper will present the ethical concerns from both perspectives, as well as
consideration of the varying participants: patient, physicians, nurses and/or family. This paper
is intended to present the known arguments and inform from both positions.
13. YOUTH Sept 2014
Eating Disorders in a Twice Hidden Population
ABSTRACT: Eating disorders have been long viewed as a gender issue, both
socially and clinically. Men do experience eating disorders, yet many refuse
treatment due to the stigma attached to having a “female disorder” (Collier,
2013). Within the population of men with eating disorders, there is a
disproportionate number of homosexual males who struggle with eating
disorders (Siever, 1994). This subgroup not only struggles with having a
“female disorder” but also general discrimination towards a homosexual
lifestyle. As a result, this group has become a twice-hidden population within
the research and treatment of eating disorder in homosexual males.
14. YOUTH Sept 2014
Ecological Approach to Deviancy
ABSTRACT: Animal cruelty/animal abuse, defined as torture, needlessly beating,
mutilating or killing of an animal has become a euphemism for deviancy or bad kids.
However, another perspective is being uncovered. Research is bringing to light the
likelihood that animal cruelty/animal abuse may be symptomatic of violence and/or
abuse within the home. Often this is behavior that the adolescent has observed or
participated in with a family member. From this perspective, the perpetrator is a
victim not an offender. This qualitative study asks Midwestern adolescents, ages 13-
18, who are in the juvenile justice system and have engaged in animal cruelty/animal
abuse about their lived experiences.
15. ELDERLY Dec 2013
Ageism and Sexism:
Discrimination Against the Elderly
ABSTRACT: For centuries, youth have been instructed to “respect your
elders”; somewhere along the way, a drastic paradigm shift occurred. In 1969,
the term “ageism” was coined to describe prejudice and discrimination of older
adults (Rupp, 2005, June), and has been thriving ever since. Ageism is a form
of discrimination solely based upon the belief that an age, up to a certain point,
is superior to those ages past this point. The population of older adults,
specifically elderly people, is a multi-cultural group being discriminated against,
as all ethnicities ultimately grow old and sadly, ageism appears to be nearly
universal. This paper shows the origin of this discrimination and its depth
16. ELDERLY Dec 2013
Elders Have Sex Too
As one ages, many changes occur, most notably biological and cognitive. Although those are the
obvious aging indicators, psychological and sociocultural variations are also incurred. However, it is
the influence of the sociocultural variables which may be the most surprising. Often times these
influences follow the path of stereotypes, an overgeneralized belief about a group or population, or
are the result of discrimination, defined as “unjustifiable behavior” towards a group or population
(Myers, 2014).
For this specific topic, the stereotype at play is that older adults cannot or do not have sex; in this
case, that some people are “too old to have sex”. This stereotype facilitates the discriminatory battle
of ageism, the belief that the competence and ability levels of human characteristics can be
influenced by age – moreover that after a certain age, become worthless. In 1969, the term “ageism”
developed to describe prejudice and discrimination of older adults (Rupp, 2005). This paper sets out
to illustrate that it is culture, not biology, influencing whether older adults engage in sexual activity,
addressing the sociocultural influences regarding aging adults and sexuality.
17. YOUTH March 2014
Marginalized in Macomb:
Participatory Action Research Project with
Black teens of Macomb, IL
INTRODUCTION: Stereotypes and prejudices have been recorded throughout history; sadly,
it still exists – and even thrives - today. Black adolescents in Macomb IL appear to be
increasingly prejudice against and this participation action research project set out to discover
how it was that these teens felt, not about their town, but because of their town.
Stereotyping exists throughout the world and the two selected organizations work to ensure
diversity is incorporated into their programming and operations. Youth for Christ, an
international faith-based organization, and Girls, Inc., an organization, “inspiring all girls to be
strong, smart, and bold” (GirlsInc.org), both utilize methods and strategies that look beyond
the “differences” and focus on the commonalities, chipping away at stereotypes and prejudices.
This paper will compare and contrast those two organizations in relation to the struggles of the
town of Macomb.