Age And Identity

Question 1

How age affects indentity

Answer 1

U.K. Segregated it’s members by age therefore the way old and young people are treated have a significant effect on their identity

Restricts what a person can do because of stereotypes imposed on them by society

Question 2

Age stages

Answer 2

Biology influences the way society divides people by age

5 major generational stages :

Childhood , youth , young adulthood ,middle age and old age

Question 3

Childhood and studies

Answer 3

Childhood innocent and vulnerable stage - need to be protected

Shapes identity because they are not physically or mentally developed enough ho carry out adult tasks (driving /getting a job )

Postman : innocent child dissapearing , suggests age has less of an impact - blurred distinction

Question 4

Youth and studies

Answer 4

Youth transition from childhood to adulthood

S cohen : media moral panic of youth shows them as a threat to society

Savage : teenagers condemned more that praised

Clarke : youth as being based on concept of rebellion

Question 5

Old age and study

Answer 5

Associated with loneliness and isolation which is reinforced by films and tv

Affects identity as they are seen as less physically effective or uselesss – denied jobs or looked down upon if wanting to start leisure activities such as dancing

Hockey and James - concept of infantilisation - claims that the old are infantilised, helpless infants depenendent on the support of adults in society

Overcome as there are clubs for old people