Age Identities Flashcards
Ippr
any adults afraid of teenagers paedophobia
Lack of family interaction in adolescence
Giddens
Longer life expectancy means people know gp
Retirement is 3rd age
Time for new interests hobbies active ageing
Gardener
Parents and teenagers choosing quality time
Guardian
Parents concerned about perceived risks and monitor and control
11 year old micro chipped
Furedi
Parents fears and exaggerated
African Caribbean boys rebelled
Sewell
Willis frosh Jackson
Anti school subculture
Friendship networks important in young adulthood
Heath
Willis Mac an ghaill frosh
Anti school subcultures get status from peer group
Mcrobbie and garber
Bedroom culture
Peer group more important for advice that parents in adolescence
Cote
Mckingsley
Religion is coping strategy in over 85s
Muncie
Often stereotyped categories youth seen as deviant and troublesome
Old age as loneliness BUT
Hellen mirren positive role model
Youth demonised by media and create a moral panic because they are folk Devils
Cohen
Griffin
Youth dysfunctional and suffer from a social deficit and do not achieve academically as deviant rule breakers
Sontag
Double standard of ageing on teas women required to look young but not men
Moira Stuart
Claimed she was victim of ageism
Arber and ginn
Ageism against elderly in workplace but new laws make hard to retire people
Minimum wage
Different for 18-21 year olds
Jones et al
Early retirement embraced
Looking after grandchildren
BUT sand which generation henretta and Grundy
