Changing patterns of the life course and the personal life personal life perspective

Question 1

What peter laslett say?

Answer 1

That there are four stages of life
- first stage of childhood
- second age of adulthood
-third age follows retirement
- fourth age relates to physical decline

Question 2

explanations of changing patterns in the life course

Answer 2

• prio

Question 3

de-differentiation

Answer 3

• process in which the differences between the stages in life become less clear
  e.g clothes, language, leisure activities

Question 4

deinstitutionalisation

Answer 4

a process in which the institution of society become less closely associatied with maintaining the life course
e.g adults going back into education, children can work if they want
e.g equality act meant you couldnt be discriminated against because of age

Question 5

Mike featherstone and mike hepworth (1991)

Answer 5

• see a relationship between life course and labour market.
  -agree that indstrialisation led to the life course being socially structured into order.
• say life course has been changed again by modern society
• life course has been deconstructed

Question 6

Key factors influencing the life course

Answer 6

• children and adults are alike
  -adult concerns brought into the life of children

-body maintenance slowing down aging process
-rejection of chronical age in favour of personal age
-extension of middle age and economic contribution of society

Question 7

reasons for exam questions

Answer 7

• laws leads to deinstitutionalisation
• changes in media ( through tech and more access) - leads to children and adults being alike