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age is a

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contested concept because the age categories are up to interpretation and differ from person to person

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age categories

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  • childhood
  • youth
  • young adulthood
  • middle age
  • old age
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youth and old age carry a

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stigmatised identity

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childhood

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  • dependancy
  • primary socialisation
  • innocence
    -** Postman**
  • vulnerable
  • care and control
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youth

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  • rebel and resist
  • fun and excitement
  • greater independance
  • style
  • consumption and media
  • education
  • restrictions from law
  • storm and stress
  • rite of passage
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middle age

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  • work orientated
  • parenthood
  • empty nest syndrome
  • financial independance
  • stable relationships
  • fulfilment
  • sandwhich generation
  • Henretta and grundy
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old age

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  • retirement and reflect
  • dependant
  • new oppertunities
  • freedom
  • fearful of crime etc
  • ill health
  • lonely
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chronological age is …

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biologically determined

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age can be (what) by actions etc

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socially constructed

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the Life course approach to life

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when you go through the different stages of life

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Braddley

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there are active and passive identities
- youth and old age are the categories that carry the most stigmatised identities

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Albert Cohen - functionalist

youth

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  • youth experience ‘status frustration’
  • society believes in deferred gratification
  • working class youth are frustrated that they will not reach the same money as middle class ones
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Clarke - marxist

youth

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skinheds and hegemonic masculinity

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Phil Cohen - marxist

youth

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skinheads and a ‘sense of community and terretofality’

football hoologanism

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**Polheimus **- postmodernist

youth

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supermarket of style

  • we are defined by what we consume and not what we produce
  • pick’n’mix is encouraged by the media
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Corner and marxists

old age

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Ageing bodies represent ugliness. Corners study reflected that old people see themselves as a burden on society. Marxists see this because they are not working and contributing to a capitalist society.

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growing up and growing old - Hockney and James

old age

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  • children lack personhood
  • children are dependant and variable
  • children and old age are socially contructed as they haave lost a status of personhood
  • ‘gaga’ is a term used for both babies and elderly
  • infantilisation describes this concept
  • in a retirement home they were treated like childre (eg no privacy)
  • creates self fulfilling prophecy
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**Becker **- interactionist

labelling theory example

old age

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old people - treated as children - stigmatised identity - master status - self fulfilling prophecy

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Clarke and Warren - actively aging

old age

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  • interviewd 23 people between the ages of 60 and 96 about their experience of aging
  • they concluded that most of the respondants identified this phase of life in an active and engaged way
  • eg the Zimmers
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greypound

old age

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older people spending

important to captialism eg saga holidays are 50+
- anti ageing products
- botox
- aqua aerobics

21
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Philipson

old age

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they are a financial drain on society

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Henry and Cummings - functionalists

old age

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  • disengagement theory
  • old people should stop work at 60
  • still beneficial in society
  • take up other useful roles like grandparents
  • allows young poeple to enter workforce
23
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children in other cultures

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In some cultures ‘childhood’ is not a period of innocense and vulnerability
- some will be working or even fighting in wars
- some will be married

24
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it is argued that in the UK we have a (what) view on childhood

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contradictory

  • little angels
  • vulnerable
25
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**Postman **

childhood

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childhood emerged only when literacy could allow adults to sheild children from the harsh aspects of life
- the innocent child was created
- media brought a decline to childhood

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palmer

childhood

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toxic childhood and electronic babysitting

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young adulthood

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  • very little is said about ‘normal’ adulthood
  • young adulthood is characterised by career and family
  • become more independant from parents
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Bradley

middle age

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middle age has a higher status then youth or old age
- middle age are running the country
- hold power at work

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middle age seen as a negative time

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  • mid life crisis
  • empty nest syndrome
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postmodernists

changing age identities

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age is fluid and becoming less significant
- living and wokring for longer
- anti aging products
- extension of youth

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Featherstone and Hepworth

changing age identities

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media images of aging can create new identities and suggest that as the population ages, more positive images may emerge eg retro fashions

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Plummer - interactionist

childhood

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culture is relative:
- place to place
- time to time
- culture to culture

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