age identity Flashcards
Postman
Childhood emerged because as a society want to protect. Social media has led to the disappearance of childhood
Sue Palmer
An education system which is stressful, a life which is on screen and that leads to mental health problems, obesity etc.
Polhemus
Youth are a Supermarket of style
Postmodernists
Featherstone and Hepworth, media creates a negative view on aging, emergence of Botox and cosmetics to reverse
Cohen
Media representation of young people are still the same ‘folk devils’
Labelling Theory
A self for filling prophecy when it comes to age
Patricia Moore
Dressed as an elderly woman for 3 years, found you weren’t ‘terribly important’
Davis
Most youth are conformist and most likely share their parents views
Bradley
Middle aged is the highest status
The legal argument
18 is for drink in the UK, but seen to be culturally different around the world
Hockley and James
Old people, being treated like children again as they are seen as innocent and fragile
Margret Mead
Idea that age is a social construct, the storm and stress in western cultures do not present in other
Corner
Old people often view themselves as a burden to society
Neugarten
Interviewed middle aged people found that there is a significance in body ageing and bridges between generations
Abrams
Age groups share culture, of transition
