AMERİKA BİRLEŞİK DEVLETLERİ’NDE ÇEŞİTLİLİK VE YAŞLILIK

Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 137 - 169, 30.01.2016

Ronald J. Angel Jacqueline L. Angel Translator: Fevzi Kaya

Abstract

Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, etnik ve ırksal çeşitliliğiyle bilinen ülkelerin başında yer almaktadır. Yaşlı nüfus ve göçlerin artmasıyla beraber bu çeşitliliğin günümüzde daha renkli bir hale geldiği görülmektedir. Dominant kültür yerini farklılıklardan gelen bireylerin hâkim olduğu bir ortama bırakmıştır. Özellikle yaşlı kesimin toplumda ve işgücünde hem oranının hem de öneminin artacağına inanılmaktadır. Farklılıkların takdir edilmesinin gerekli bir durum olduğunun altı çizilmektedir. Belirtilen gerçekliğin diğer ülkelerce de dikkate alındığı bilinmektedir. Ülkemiz gibi toplumlarda da benzer bir tablo söz konusu olduğundan makalenin ilgili çevrelere yol gösterici olabileceği düşünülmüştür. Çevirisi yapılan makale, Robert H. Binstock ve Linda K. George adlı yazarların 2006 yılında editörlüğünü yaptıkları “Yaşlılık ve Sosyal Bilimler El Kitabı” (Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences) adlı kitapta yer almaktadır.

Keywords

Çeşitlilik, Yaşlılık

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