Age indentities Flashcards
child youth identities - Parsons
Children’s norms and values are associated with different roles. The family helps through primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities.
child youth identities - Griffin
The media negatively represents youths by amplifying deviance and moral panics. They are portrayed as dysfunctional, suffering a deficit, and deviant.
children youth identities- Heintz-Knowles
(The media) conducted a content analysis to study children in the entertainment industry, which creates socially constructed moral panics and lives with labels.
children youth identities - Mcrobbie
(Peer group) Boys and girls are treated differently by their parents.
-’ Bedroom culture’- girls spend their leisure time with friends in their bedroom.
-Boys are given more freedom than girls, they are more protected.
children youth identities - Sewell
(peer group) recognizes new ‘hyper-masculinity’, black Afro-Caribbean men who lack positive male role models adopt an exaggerated version of hegemonic masculinity.
(Education) He argues that afro-carribean reject education and would rather make money through selling drugs than traditional ways.
children youth identities - Willis
lads reject education and develop an ‘anti-school subculture’ with no aims/goals. Choose to have manual labor jobs instead
middle age identities - Brannen
(Family)
Middle-aged people are a pivotal generation that has the role of a dual burden, with informal care responsibilities.
middle age identities - Saunders
(media) argues that the media targets middle-aged people because they have the highest disposable income and indulge in consumer consumption.
middle age identity - Hodkinson
(peer group) In subcultures the sense of belonging continues into adulthood. Studies goths.
middle age identity - Willis
(workplace) His research on lads showed they wanted to follow into a workplace of their role models, their dads.
middle age identity - Mac and Ghail
(workplace)
Men felt redundant in the workplace after de-industrialisation took place and felt a ‘crisis of masculinity’ because they lost their identity.
old age identity - Parsons
(Family) The elderly lose their social roles and enjoy leisure activities. Creates ‘disengagement theory’
old age identity - Carrigan and Szmigin
(media) Older people are less likely to be portrayed in advertisements as smelly and incompetent.
old age identity - Sontag
(media) Suggests there is a double standard of aging especially in television.
old age identity - Johnson
(workplace) ageism occurs in UK society. It is argued to be institutionalised and expressed through stereotypical assumptions about a person’s competency.
old age identity - Voas
(religion) He argues that it gives people a sense of comfort in facing death and that older people identify as religious because of the ‘generational effect’ and the ‘aging effect’.
changing age identities postmodernism - Clarke and Warren
(peer group) believe old age is when you can make new friends and engage in new interests through inclusion. Explains this through the concept of ‘active aging’ and ‘university of third age’
Changing age identities postmodernism - Featherstone and Hepworth
(media) argue the life course has been deconstructed through ‘de-differentiation’ and ‘deinstitutionalisation’
(consumer group)
- Argue the ‘baby boomer generation’ has broken stereotypes of old age and increased the option of identities for older people.
