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What are the studies for creation and reinforcement of old people

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  • media:Sontag double standards of ageing
  • media: Pilcher double standards of ageing
  • workplace: Arber and Ginn
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What does Pilcher: stereotyping of old people argue ageism is shown by ?

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Stereotype prejudice everyday by the interactions we have with elderly people

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Pilcher: stereotyping of old people

Example of Pilcher and how stereotypes are underpinned by everyday interactions that people have with the elderly ?

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Assumes a persons competency is limited by their age e.g too old to do a certain task or described in derogatory terms

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How does media make old people inferior according to Pilcher: stereotypes of old people ?

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Adverts reinforce the view that the appearance of youth good and ageing should be avoided at all cost

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What does Arber and Ginn say how ageism against elderly is reinforced in workplace

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By Unemployment, redundancy and retirement

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What does retirement lead to according to Arber and Ginn

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Loss of status , self respect , self isolation, loneliness and purpose

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Who adds onto Arber and Ginn workplace

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Bradley

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What does Bradley add on to Arber and Ginn for workplace

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Old people are seen as less suitable for employment, physically slow and not adaptable to change

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Studies for creation and reinforcement of young identities ?

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  • Media- Charlotte Kelly
  • peer groups over family: Judith Harris
  • peer groups and education: Willis
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Media:Charlotte Kelly C&R of young identities

What did Charlotte Kelly research for young people

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Language used by journalist to describe young people who came in contact with the law

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Media:Charlotte Kelly C&R of young identities

What did Charlotte Kelly find in her research of language Journalist used to describe young people when they come in contact with the law ?

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  • Young people are dangerous
    • Young people are in need of protection
    • Young people are immature
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Who adds to media: Charlotte Kelly ?

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Griffin

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What are the three ways according to Griffin youth are portrayed by the media

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  1. Dysfunctional- not being properly socialised or enough self control
  2. Suffering a deficiet- do not achieve enough educationally
  3. Deviant - rule breakers
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What does Judith Harris: peer groups over family say about influence of p family and peers

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Peer groups is more influential than the family in shaping young people’s identities

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What does Judith Harris: peer groups over family state compare with peer groups and family ?

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  • Parents push us to conform and put pressure on following rules whether we do or do not want to
  • peer groups pull us to conform is more stronger than other agents
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Studies for changing young identities

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  • Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation
  • The Internet as Fundamental to the Identities of Young People
  • rise of “kippers”
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Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation

What was this study conducted by ?

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The Varkey foundation conducted international study over 20 countries based on cohort of generation Z and Zoomers

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Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation

What was the key findings ?

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  1. Happiness
  2. Personal values
  3. Factors influencing future choices
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Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation

What does happiness say about?

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Gen z youth was happy overall with their personal lives

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Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation

What was personal value ?

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They found the most important personal values to these young people
were helping their families and themselves get ahead in life followed closely by honesty.

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Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation

What was factors influencing choices for the future ?

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most important factors for young
people when thinking about their futures were their families and their health

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Youth as a contested category: Norms and values of the young change with every generation

Overall what does this study show ?

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Values are different to values of earlier generations of young people so when youth mean changes with every generation

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The Internet as Fundamental to the Identities of Young People
New research

What is research is used to reveal important of internet ?

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UK safer internet (2019) reveals how important the internet is for helping to find own voice

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The Internet as Fundamental to the Identities of Young People
New research
Finding of the UK SAafer internet centre ?

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  • Online experience is essential to forming young people’s identity
  • digital world is essential to understand people identities
  • young people use the internet to explore and creativity that shape their indentity
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Internet as Fundamental to the Identities of Young People

What does this study suggest about young people and internet

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previous generations who did
not experience the internet in their youth – demonstrating how youth is formed differently to the
ways it was in the past.

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Rise of kippers- heath

What does the extension of education mean according to heath ?

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Extension of education as the school leaving age has increase from 16 to 18 so young people staying longer in education

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Rise of kipper: heath

What is a kipper ?

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Young people who live with their parents after they finished education to save money or to be economically dependent on parents

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Rise of kippers:heath

Reasons why adult kids will stay in parents house

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Increase in rent and house price

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Rise of kippers

What does these examples of kippers demonstrate ?

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demonstrate the ways in which independence has been lost
from many young people in recent years – creating a more dependent youth identity than existed
in the past.

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Studies for changing of Old identity

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  • Active ageing- Warren and Clarke
  • new media role models- featherstone and Hepworth
  • intersectional
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What is active ageing according to Clarke and Warren: active ageing ?

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People see ageing as active and engaging way and being older has provided new opportunities and time to enjoy events with family members e.g Christmas

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Example of positive representation of active ageing according to Clarke and Warren ?

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More positive representation of older icons recently in the media

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Example of individual who is seen as an icon in positive media representation for active ageing

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e.g Helen Mirren has extensive media coverage for her active ageing and talent
- she actively gets fit, 12 min workout since 1950s, said no to Hollywood pressure to surgery and chooses not have children

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What does Featherstone and Hepworth: new media role models

What do they argue about the media images of ageing

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Media images of ageing which have been a way of negative stereotypes and identity can create new identities

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Featherstone and Hepworth: new media role models
How can media images of ageing which is stereotypical and negative of identity create new identities

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can also create new identities, and suggest that as the
population ages, more positive images emerge

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Example of those who are creating new identity with medias stereotypical negative image of ageing

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Oprah Winfrey, Elton John all lead a full and active lifestyle

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What does intersectionality say about ageing changing

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Age and generation groups ways of being treatment tend to be influence by ethnicity,gender and social class

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What section of intersectionality is focused on for ageing changing ?

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  1. Race and ethnicity
  2. Class
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What does race and ethnicity of intersectionality say for ageing changing

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Experience of an elderly African Caribbean women would be different compared to white , middle class elderly man

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Study applied to intersectionality of race and gender for old identities changing ?

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Marsh and Keating

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What does Marsh and Keating say for the reasoning why experience of African carribean elderly woman js different to white middle class man ?

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  • different cultures attach different cultural meanings and values to different age groups.
  • These shape our behaviour in terms of how we respond to others of the same generation and how
    we treat people in other age group
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What study is used for gender and intersectionality and old changing ?

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Fruend and Ritter

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What does Fruend and Ritter: gender intersectionality say there is a popular conception of men of ?

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Midlife crisis for men when they hit middle age

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For gender intersectionality and changing of old , what does Fruend and Ritter for middle class men ?

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  • drastic measures to fulfill dream
  • dreaming of buying sports car
  • dating younger women
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Gender : intersectionality Fruend and Ritter

Compared to men how are women shown when they reach middle age

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Do not have a crisis like men when they hit middle age instead women is portrayed as a time change e.g menopause so need to talk about gender and middle age without talking about genre is meaningless and limited

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