Background
Age, as a category, is shaped by societal and cultural norms and co-constructed through interactions.
Focusing on social interactions will enable a deep understanding of how ageist or age inclusive processes are developed.
Research Questions
How age is jointly constructed in the personal encounters between employer and employee in organizational contexts?
How polices are talked in the formal local encounters in the workplace?
Organizational level
PURPOSE: to analyse how age is referred to and talked in official documents by organizations.
DATA: companies websites, LinkedIn posts, HR policies documents.
METHOD: Textual analysis; membership categorization analysis.
Interactional level
PURPOSE: to understand how age is talked in personal encounters between HR representatives, managers and employees.
DATA: recording of job interviews, performance appraisals.
METHOD: discourse and conversation analysis.
