Age and Disabled Identities

Question 1

Sociologist:

adolescents learn norms and values that children are not socialised into

Answer 1

Parsons

Question 2

Sociologist:
Media portrays youth as 3 ways. 
- Dysfunctional
- Suffering a deficit 
- Deviant

Answer 2

Griffin

Question 3

Sociologist:
Children are portrayed in the media in the following ways:
- Motivated by romance and peer relationships
- Minority ethnic children are under-represented
- Children do not deal with important issues
- Boys are more likely to be physically aggressive

Answer 3

Heintz-Knowles

Question 4

Sociologist:

Bedroom culture in adolescent girls and the cult of femininity (focus on looks, boyfriends and pop stars)

Answer 4

McRobbie

Question 5

Sociologist:
African-Caribbean boys feel peer pressure to behave in an antisocial way, present as hyper masculine, and reject the school system in favour of a ‘get rich quick’ mentality (often dealing drugs)

Answer 5

Sewell

Question 6

Sociologist:
Working class boys reject school as they will inevitably enter a 'low-skill' manual labour job.

Answer 6

Willis

Question 7

Sociologist:

Dual burden, Pivot generation (swinging between responsibilities)

Answer 7

Brannen

Question 8

Sociologist:

Conspicuous consumption, high disposable income, mid-life crisis

Answer 8

Saunders

Question 9

Sociologist:
Subcultures bring a sense of belonging.
Study of goth subculture revealing an intertwined community which continues into middle age.
More acceptant of academic achievement and settling down.

Answer 9

Hodkinson

Question 10

Sociologist:
Older consumers have grown in affluence and numbers but are underrepresented in the media. Caricatures and negative images.

Answer 10

Carrigan and Szmigins

Question 11

Sociologist:

Double standard of aging for women

Answer 11

Sontag

Question 12

Sociologist:

Stereotypes of old people in the media (grumpy, feisty, wise, sickly, mentally deficient, second childhood)

Answer 12

Landis

Question 13

Sociologist:
Active aging. Old age is an active and social period in life.
‘university of the third age’

Answer 13

Clarke and Warren

Question 14

Sociologist:

Age discrimination against elderly in the workplace. Assumptions on an individual’s capability based on age.

Answer 14

Johnson

Question 15

Sociologist:
Older people are more likely to be religious because they were brought up in a more religious era and find comfort in it as they approach death.

Answer 15

Voas

Question 16

Definition:

‘right of passage’

Answer 16

The ceremony or ritual which may accompany the changes in status that occur in the course of the life cycle (eg. birthdays, marriage)

Question 17

Sociologist:
Disabled people are often socialised to have a ‘victim mentality’ and find it difficult to form a positive disabled identity due to a lack of positive role models in public life and in the media.

Answer 17

Shakespeare

Question 18

Sociologist:
The media represents disabled people as one of 7 stereotypes. In need of pity/charity, victims, villains, super-cripples, burdens, sexually abnormal, normal.

Answer 18

Barnes

Question 19

Sociologist:
‘Learned helplessness’ when a previously able-bodied person becomes disabled later in life and turns feelings of fear or pity they held for disabled people onto themselves.

Answer 19

Gill

Question 20

Sociologist:
Disabled people have the ability to construct an identity accepting of but separate from their impairment. Society should view disability as a human condition rather than an impairment that sets certain people apart from society as a whole.

Answer 20

Murugami