Age identities Flashcards

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Child/ Youth Identity

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Parsons 
Griffen 
McRobbie 
Sewell 
Wills
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Middle age identity

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Brannen
Saunders
Willis
Mac an Ghail

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Old age identity

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Parsons 
Carrigan and Szmigin 
Sontag 
Hockey and James
Johsons
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Changing age identities postmodern

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Featherstone and Hepworth
Blakie
The university of the Third age

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Parsons Youth

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Youth
Focused on how the family creates and reinforces youth identity. childhood is a period when socialisation takes place and children learn the norms and values required for them to contribute to society as adults. The family has two main functions, primary socialisation and the stabilization of adult personalities. Adolescence is where children develop independence which is vital for society to run smoothly

Childhood provides:
1 - The primary socialisation of children
2 - The stabilization of the adult personalities of the population of society

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Griffin

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Youth

Youths portrayed in media as deviant, dysfunctional and suffering a deficit
Resulting in a socially constructed idea about what young people are like, this creates moral panic.

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Mcrobbie

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Youth
She uses the term bedroom culture to explain the way that girls spend their leisure time with their peers in their bedrooms. The cult of femininity they are part of teaches them traditional gender norms.

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Sewell

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Youth 
Black, working class youths adopt hypermasculine culture - Anti-school
it gives them a sense of purpose and belonging. They gain status by rejecting school rules
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Willis youth

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Youth

Young, working class ‘lads’ - Fatalistic about futures - Unskilled manual labour work - Anti-school

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Brannen

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Middle age

Dual burden - Middle age women - Pivot / sandwich generation

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Saunders

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Middle Age

Midlife crisis’ - Conspicuous consumption - High disposable income

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Willis middle age

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middle age
- Middle aged fathers act as role models for ‘lads’ - Unskilled manual labour work key source of identity

They defined themselves as manual workers and membership to this occupation was the key defining feature of their middle-aged identities.

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Mac an Ghail

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Middle age, working class men faced a ‘crisis of masculinity’ due to deindustrialisation

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Parsons old age

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old age
Elderly have less status in society, once children have grown up and men have retired, the elderly lose their most important social role within the family - Disengagement

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Carrigan and Szmigin

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old age

Old age - Labelled by media as ‘smelly and incontinent’

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Sontag

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old age

Middle and older age women face a double standard of ageing

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Hockey and James

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Old age

Old age and infantalisation in care homes

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Featherstone and Hepworth

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changing age
Age is now becoming less relevant due to:
- Deinstitutionalisation (institutions less associated with different ages e.g. education for older people
- De-diffrentiation - Life stages are becoming blurred

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Blaikie

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changing age
The retired are now an important consumer group who are targeted with a range of products and services. The ‘grey £’ is valued

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The university of the third age

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changing age

example of active ageing - Learning for enjoyment

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Johsons

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old age
ageism occurs in the workplace and that ageism is institutionalised and embedded in practice and society. Ageism in the workplace is expressed through the stereotypical assumptions about a person’s competency to do a job in relation to their age. Older people find it harder to get a job, the older they get and face stereotypes in the workplace.