Age Identities

Question 1

Child / Youth :
PARSONS

Answer 1

Childhood provides:

• Primary socialisation
• Stabilisation of adult personalities

Question 2

Child / Youth :
GRIFFIN

Answer 2

• Youths portrayed as:
• deviant
• dysfunctional
• Suffering a deficit

Question 3

Child / Youth :
HEINZ-KNOWLES

Answer 3

-Content analysis
-study the way children are portrayed in entertainment

Question 4

Child / Youth :
MCROBBIE

Answer 4

• Young girls
• Safe In homes
  Cult of femininity

Question 5

Child / Youth :
SEWELL

Answer 5

• black youths adopt hyper masculine anti school culture

Question 6

Child / Youth :
WILLIS

Answer 6

• Young w/c lads Fatalistic about futures
• Unskilled manual labour work
• Anti school

Question 7

Middle age:
BRANNEN

Answer 7

• Dual burden
• Sandwich generation
  -Pivot

Question 8

Middle age:
SAUNDERS

Answer 8

• Middle age Midlife Crisis
• Conspicuous consumption
• High disposable income

Question 9

Middle age:
HODKINSON

Answer 9

• Middle age goths
  -Identity part of subculture

Question 10

Middle age:
WILLIS

Answer 10

• Middle age fathers role for ‘lads’
• Unskilled manual labour jobs
  -Source of identity

Question 11

Middle age:
MAC AN GHAIL

Answer 11

• Middle age men face
  Crisis of Masculinity
  Due to deindustrialization

Question 12

Old age:
PARSONS

Answer 12

• Elderly less status in society
• One children grow and men retire they lose important role

Question 13

Old age:
CARRIGAN AND SZMGIN

Answer 13

• Labelled as:

Smelly and incontinent

Question 14

Old age:
SONTAG

Answer 14

Middle and older women face double standard of ageing

Question 15

Old age:
JOHNSON

Answer 15

Workplace institutionally ageist

Question 16

Old age:
VOAS

Answer 16

Turn to religion:
- Generational effect
- Ageing effect

Question 17

Old age:
HOCKEY AND JAMES

Answer 17

Old age and infantilisation in care home

Question 18

Old age:
CLARKE AND WARREN

Answer 18

• Old age is now period for active ageing

Question 19

Old age:
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Answer 19

• Example of active ageing
• Learning for enjoyment

Question 20

Changing Postmodernism:
FEATHERSTONE AND HEPWORTH

Answer 20

• Age becoming less relevant due:
• Deindustrialisation (institutions less associated with different ages)
• De-differentiation = Life stages becoming blurred

Question 21

Changing Postmodernism:
BLAKIE

Answer 21

-Retired now an important consumer
-Targeted with products and services

Question 22

Changing Postmodernism:
PILCHER

Answer 22

Industrialisation demanded for particular stages for labour market
- Diff phases of life courses becoming blurred

Question 23

Changing Postmodernism:
CLARKE AND WARREN

Answer 23

• Old age is a period for active ageing

Question 24

Changing Postmodernism:
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

Answer 24

Example of active ageing = learning for enjoyment

Question 25

Disabled: MEDICAL MODEL

Answer 25

- See's disability as a medical problem - Impairments - Leads to victim blaming mentality - Problem lies with disabled individual

Question 26

Disabled: SOCIAL MODEL

Answer 26

- Social and Physical barriers to inclusion - Design of buildings discrimination attitudes and practices against those with disabilities

Question 27

Disabled: SHAKESPEARE

Answer 27

- Disabled people socialised into a 'victim mentality' - Use it as a reason for their failure

Question 28

Disabled: RIDLEY

Answer 28

- 2/3 people felt awkward talking to disabled people - Less than with have disabilities - four- fifths able bodied but not guaranteed to be able bodied forever. - Known as Awkward

Question 29

Disabled: BARNES

Answer 29

Negatively portrayed in the media Seen as victims, villains, burden, sexually abnormal Rarely seen as normal

Question 30

Disabled: GILL

Answer 30

- Learned helplessness Internalises that they are incapable of changing situations and fails to take actions to help themselves

Question 31

Disabled: MURUGAMI

Answer 31

- Can construct a self identity - accepts impairment but is independent of it