AGE

Question 1

Postman

Answer 1

Electronic media is removing childhood due to excessive exposure at a young age leading to growing up at a faster rate.

Question 2

Mead

Answer 2

Not all cultures have the concept of youth eg. Hamar tribe child to adult overnight.

Question 3

Jones and Wallace

Answer 3

“Private markers” eg. First sexual experience and “Public markers” eg. The right to vote.

Question 4

Bradley

Answer 4

Argues middle age has the highest status yet is viewed negatively.

Question 5

Pilcher

Answer 5

Old people described in derogatory terms such as “old fogey” as a way of marginalising the old and labelling them inferior.

Question 6

Hockey and James

Answer 6

Old people are “infantilised” and treated like children as they are assumed to be incapable of independence.

Question 7

Bradley

Answer 7

Old people aren’t suitable for employment as they are branded “slow” and “not adaptable to change”.

Question 8

Corner

Answer 8

Language used by old people to describe themselves was negative.

Question 9

Featherstone and Hepworth

Answer 9

Postmodernists who argue age is not important and shouldn’t be categorised.