Age identity

Question 1

What is Age Identity?

Answer 1

age identity is how long we have lived and how this shapes our identity in terms of what we see as age appropriate behaviour

Question 2

What are the 4 groups of age inequality

Answer 2

• Childhood
• Youth
• Adulthood
• Old age

Question 3

How is age inequality shown through the family

Answer 3

parsons: teenage culture is a transition from childhood to adulthood, old age time of loneliness, isolation and dependancy on state

the function of the family is to socialise the youth

Question 4

How is age inequality shown through mass media

Answer 4

Pearson: young people shown as folk devils by the media

willis: old people shown as grumpy, stubborn, lonely and interfering in media.

Biggs: old people shown as feeble, vague and forgetful in media.

Question 5

How is age inequality shown through religion

Answer 5

O’beirne: those with a religion are usually older than average than those who aren’t religious

YouGov: belief in God is lowest among the young

Question 6

How is age inequality shown through the workplace

Answer 6

More Survey 2002: 38% cited ageism as form of discrimination they had faced in the workplace

Featherstone and Hepworth: individual life courses are becoming destructed and fragmentated

Question 7

How is age inequality shown through education

Answer 7

Skelton and Francis: areas of the school playground - we mix with our own age group