Age And Disabled Identities Flashcards
Parsons -youth
Childhood is when socialisation into societies culture takes place and they learn norms and values which enables them to contribute to society as adults He believed the family has 2 main functions the primary socialisation of children and the stabilisation of the adult personalities of the population of society
Griffin -youth
The media portray youths as dysfunctional, suffering a deficit and deviant
Heintz knowles -youth
Content analysis of children’s tv programms and found children are motivated by peer relationships and least by school and religion, they don’t deal with important issues, most have anti social behaviours and boys are more likely to show physical aggression where girls show affection
Brannen-middle
Calls the middle aged the pivot generation and they have a dual burden as they care for their children and their elderly parents . Traditional suffered most by the mother
Saunders middle
The middle age is targeted as consumers as they have the higher disposable income and they define their identity by what they own (conspicuous consumption)
Hodkinson middle
Peer group may create and reinforce middle age identity through inclusion. He studied goths and found people were very committed even into middle age as their social lives are intertwined. It is also quite middle class as they have a positive view of academic achievement so they carry on their careers
Willis middle
the workplace may reinforce a middle age identity as it is the dominant source of their identity. Young working class boys (lads) are socialised by peer group into anti school sub cultures. Especially for manual jobs, boys and their fathers used manual labour jobs as a key source for identity
Mac an ghail middle
Studied working class area and found boys from working class subcultures followed their fathers into manual labour jobs. Macho lads as had ability to perform heavy, physical labour and it became a way for them to shape their identity but de industrialisation led to a crisis of masculinity
Parsons old age
The elderly have less status in society as their children have grown up and they have retired, they loose their most important social role in the family . Disengagement is when elderly people disengage with their previous roles and harvest fruits of labour and enjoy recreational activities (functionalist as they have finished raising children and don’t hold jobs others need)
Cardigan and szmigins old age
Studied old people in advertising and suggested that whilst older customers have grown in numbers and affluence they are less likely to be in advertising and if they are it is in negative portrayals such as being smelly and incontinent
Sontag old age
There is a double standard of ageing in tv where women are required to be youthful where men are not
Landis old age
Supports age concern, identified a number of stereotypes and they are depicted as one dimensional like grumpy old man, feisty women, depressed or lonely, wise, busybody, mentally deficient, sickly, having second childhood E.g dumbledore, Carl from up, Catherine rated character
Clarke and Warren old age
Old age may be a time to make new friends and engage in new interests. Inclusion into activities may define old age identity, this is Active ageing. Age can be in stages rather than chronological. there is a university of the third age where they learn about enjoyment and self development
Johnson old age
Ageism occurs in the workplace. He says it is institutionalised into practices in society. It is expressed through stereotypical assumptions about someone’s competence
Voas old age
Older people are more likely to identify as religious because of the generational effect (brought up in more religious era) or the ageing effect (more spiritual as closer to death)
Featherstone and Hepworth post age
Life course has been deconstructed in two ways. De differentiation is when the difference between life staged become less clear and de institutionalisation is when institutions become less associated with phases of life
Blakie post age
attitudes towards retirement have changed and stereotypes have broken down. Due to consumer culture the elderly are now targeted with a range of products grey pound is valued. E.go cruises, anti ageing products, retirement villages
What is the medical model of disability disabled
Sees disability as a medical problem and focuses on the limitations. This may lead to victim blaming where the problem lies with the individual not the society that hasn’t met their needs
Shakespeare disabled
Disabled people are often socialised into seeing themselves as victims and they they may accept a victim mentality. There are also big obstacles such as a lack of positive role models and people often react to disabilities with avoidance and awkwardness
What is the social model of disability disabled
The social and physical barriers to inclusion that exist such as the design of buildings and public spaces or discriminatory attitudes
Lee Ridley disabled
Comedian who has cerebral palsy and wonders if disability makes people feel awkward and launched a campaign. Charity scope uk found two thirds of people felt awkward talking to a disabled person. Found 43% don’t know anyone who is disabled which is statistically unlikely (some are not visible)
Barnes disabled
Argues that mass media representations of disability have generally been oppressive and negative and they are rarely presented as people with their own identities. Typical media representations are in need of pity and charity, as victims, as villains, as super cripples, as a burden, as sexually abnormal or as normal
Gill disabled
Had polio and coined the phrase learned helplessness to describe how some disabled people may internalise the idea they can’t change a situation and so fail to help themselves so segregated schooling encourages learned helplessness
Murugami disabled
A disabled person has the ability to construct a self identity that accepts their impairment, they see themselves as a person first and their disability as just one characteristic.
Also used for youth
Willis, Sewell , mcrobbie
Hockey and James old age
childhood and old age are socially constructed. Old age is infantilised and treated like children in care homes (no control over routine, little privacy, bathed and dressed) but may resist by acting younger and mocking the staff
Youth
Griffin, Sewell, Willis, parsons, heintz knowles, Cohe, mcrobbie
Middle
Brannen, Willis, Mac am ghail, Saunders, Hodgkinson
Old
Voas, Johnson, featherstone and Hepworth, Clarke and Warren, hockey and James, parsons, Sontag, landis, age concern, cuddly and fiske, carrigan and szmigin, Blake
