Age And Identity Flashcards
Family-‘Stranger Danger’ (Furedi)
-Where children spend their time is often subject to control and surveillance by parents.
-Parental fears about road safety and ‘stranger danger’ mean that children spend more time in the home under adult supervision.
-Paranoia is a modern feature of attitudes towards parenting.
Family-Paedophobia (IPPR)
—Many adults were afraid of teenagers;many adults reported that they had considered moving away from where they lived or that they were afraid to go out at night because of Paedophobia-Fear of young people.
-Same study indicated that 15-year olds in the UK were more likely to take drugs,get drunk,be involved in violence and have sex than any other European country.
Peers-Peer group affiliation (Heath)
-Friendship networks are becoming increasingly important as agents of socialisation during young adulthood.
-This period is characterised by movement in+out of a variety of independent living arrangements (Uni) and often being single.
Laws-School Age
-The government has increased the school leaving age to 18.-This could help viewed as a strategy to discourage youth from participating in deviant behaviour.
-This has resulting in an extension of ‘youth’ where people live at home for longer and marrying and starting families later.
Virtual babysitter (Postman)
-Children consuming more media than previous generations.
-They have become digital ‘natives’.
-Children can be socialised into gender norms by media consumption.
Disappearance of childhood (Postman)
Toxic Childhood (Palmer)
-Children are exposed to images about money,sex,violence which they previously sheltered from
-Damaged by excessive exposure to TV+computer games,with casual violence and antisocial behaviour increasing due to exposure of violent images in these.
Sexual being & social problems (Phillips)
-Media+peer groups are becoming more influential than parents.
-Magazines aimed at young girls,pop music videos + TV as a particular problem,as the cause young girls to envisage themselves as sexual beings at a much younger age.
Screen rich bedroom culture (Chambers)
-A tension exists between parents and children caused by children’s use of new media and the rise of ‘screen rich bedroom culture’
-Adolescents spend significant amounts of time in the privacy of their own rooms,using gaming consoles and laptops.
Media representations (Griffin)
-Young people are portrayed as dysfunctional (poorly socialised and lacking self control) deficient (underachieve in education) and deviant.-Such studies create a moral panic
Laws-Minimum wage
-Young people are devalued in the workplace relating to pay and the minimum wage,which is lower for those under 18,21 and 23.
Secularisation (Bruce;Madood & Berthoud)
-67% of Pakistanis and Bangladeshi’s saw religion as important compared to 5% of White British youths.
-Sunday trading changed in 1990’s,so more leisure open on Sunday.
-Peer group pressure not to express religious beliefs because it is regarded as unfashionable.
Sandwich Generation (Henrietta & Grundy)
-Older middle-aged people,especially women,have taken on responsibility for caring for older relatives,while still having some responsibility for adult children.
Kippers (Heath)
-Due to cost of buying a house,many students now returning home as ‘kippers’ at the end of university in order to save money.
Childcare services (Stratham)
-One in three families depend on grandparents as a primary source of childcare.
-Stratham argues that grandparent care can take many forms,from occasional babysitting through regular help with childcare.
Patriarchal Pressure to resist signs of aging-Cosmeticisation (Sontag)
-suggests that there is a double standard of ageing especially in TV ,whereby women are required to be youthful throughout their media careers but men are not,and therefore it can be argued that a ‘silver ceiling’ exists for female presenters.
