Age identities Flashcards
Child/ Youth Identity
Parsons Griffen McRobbie Sewell Wills
Middle age identity
Brannen
Saunders
Willis
Mac an Ghail
Old age identity
Parsons Carrigan and Szmigin Sontag Hockey and James Johsons
Changing age identities postmodern
Featherstone and Hepworth
Blakie
The university of the Third age
Parsons Youth
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
Griffin
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.
Mcrobbie
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.
Sewell
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
Willis youth
Youth
Young, working class ‘lads’ - Fatalistic about futures - Unskilled manual labour work - Anti-school
Brannen
Middle age
Dual burden - Middle age women - Pivot / sandwich generation
Saunders
Middle Age
Midlife crisis’ - Conspicuous consumption - High disposable income
Willis middle age
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.
Mac an Ghail
Middle age, working class men faced a ‘crisis of masculinity’ due to deindustrialisation
Parsons old age
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
Carrigan and Szmigin
old age
Old age - Labelled by media as ‘smelly and incontinent’