GENDER, AGE, POWER (ON THE ISSUE OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPING IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS) Cover Image

ПОЛ, ВОЗРАСТ, ВЛАСТЬ (К ВОПРОСУ О СОЦИАЛЬНОЙ СТЕРЕОТИПИЗАЦИИ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ПОЛИТИКЕ)
GENDER, AGE, POWER (ON THE ISSUE OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPING IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS)

Author(s): Oleg Vjacheslavovich Riabov, Tatjana Borisovna Riabova
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Demography and human biology, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: social stereotyping; gender-age stereotypes; symbolic politics; “colour revolutions”; resource of power;

Summary/Abstract: The article dwells upon the problem of political dimension of gender-age stereotyping. The first part of the paper focuses on the issues of intersections of age and power; the second one deals with specific of gender-age stereotyping; the third section sketches the contours of problem field of studying the gender-age stereotypes in politics (including symbolic politics, political preferences, the distribution of status positions in power structures, and others). The article demonstrates that in political sphere stereotypes of sex and age can both strengthen and weaken the influence of each other. The authors point out that gender-age stereotypes function as one of the resources of power.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 3-16
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian