Age and Disabled Identities Flashcards
Sociologist:
adolescents learn norms and values that children are not socialised into
Parsons
Sociologist: Media portrays youth as 3 ways. - Dysfunctional - Suffering a deficit - Deviant
Griffin
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
Heintz-Knowles
Sociologist:
Bedroom culture in adolescent girls and the cult of femininity (focus on looks, boyfriends and pop stars)
McRobbie
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)
Sewell
Sociologist: Working class boys reject school as they will inevitably enter a 'low-skill' manual labour job.
Willis
Sociologist:
Dual burden, Pivot generation (swinging between responsibilities)
Brannen
Sociologist:
Conspicuous consumption, high disposable income, mid-life crisis
Saunders
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.
Hodkinson
Sociologist:
Older consumers have grown in affluence and numbers but are underrepresented in the media. Caricatures and negative images.
Carrigan and Szmigins
Sociologist:
Double standard of aging for women
Sontag
Sociologist:
Stereotypes of old people in the media (grumpy, feisty, wise, sickly, mentally deficient, second childhood)
Landis
Sociologist:
Active aging. Old age is an active and social period in life.
‘university of the third age’
Clarke and Warren
Sociologist:
Age discrimination against elderly in the workplace. Assumptions on an individual’s capability based on age.
Johnson
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.
Voas
Definition:
‘right of passage’
The ceremony or ritual which may accompany the changes in status that occur in the course of the life cycle (eg. birthdays, marriage)
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.
Shakespeare
Sociologist:
The media represents disabled people as one of 7 stereotypes. In need of pity/charity, victims, villains, super-cripples, burdens, sexually abnormal, normal.
Barnes
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.
Gill
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.
Murugami
