age and identity

Question 1

what is age

Answer 1

• generally considered as a social construct (age restrictions differ in different countries)
  -more depends on socialisation different norms and values depending on your age

Question 2

what does bradley say about age

Answer 2

suggests age is most significant to the identity in teens and the older

Question 3

name a sociologist that discusses youth subcultures

Answer 3

Cohen looks at newspapers and found that they exaggerated youth delinquency and violence and labelled the mods and rockers leading to teens having a stigmatised identity

Question 4

what do interactionists say about teen stigmatised identities

Answer 4

a result of media stereotypes. the stereotype is distorted- antisocial trouble makers

Question 5

what would marxists say about teen stigmatised identities

Answer 5

hall and jefferson said that w/c subcultures form as a form of resistance to the dominant class
they are stigmatised as they do not contribute to capitalism and used as folk devils to hide the exploitation of capitalism

Question 6

marxist opinion on the older people stigmatised identity

Answer 6

seen as dependant on pensions and poor health care so they use the NHS frequently so they are seen as a burden for capitalism

Question 7

how is the media negative for older people identity

Answer 7

ageism- negative media portrayals. harder to get travel insurance which makes it harder for them to establish an identity separate from age

Question 8

name two ways in which age older people are not a stigmatised identity

Answer 8

• grey pound= beauty market can mask age and it creates leisure opportunities for older people
  -they have a lot of knowledge wisdom and life experience often shown in documentaries

Question 9

what is a criticism of age link a theory

Answer 9

• too deterministic
• intersectionality = other things contribute eg. feminism women taken off the screen as they get older eg. news programmes often an older man and a younger woman