child/youth identity

Question 1

parsons

Answer 1

• childhood is a period of time where socialisation into society’s culture takes place.
• Parson believes that the family has 2 roles:
  
  • primary socialisation
  • The stabilisation of adult personality
• adolescents is the time where children learn independence from their parents.
• This is vital for children to develop independence from their parents for their future marriage partner

Question 2

Griffin

Answer 2

• The media exaggerates and portrays the youth as social problems which creates moral panic.
• The media portrays the youth in 3 ways:
• Dysfunctional
• Suffering deficit
• Deviant

Question 3

dysfunctional

Answer 3

• griffin
• doesn’t function effectively

Question 4

suffering and deficit

Answer 4

• griffin
• think they’re hard done by

Question 5

deviant

Answer 5

• griffin
• their behaviour is abnormal and law breaking

Question 6

Heintz-knowles

Answer 6

• children are portrayed in entertainment television.
• children are involved and are motivated by peer relationships and romance
• Majority of characters engage in anti social behaviours
• Minority ethnic groups are underrepresented
• This results in socially constructed ideas about the youth and what they may be like which perhaps might not be true but creates moral panic.

Question 7

McRobbie

Answer 7

• Female peer groups encourage girls to follow traditional female gender roles
• bedroom culture
• Cult of femininity

Question 8

sewell

Answer 8

• Male peer groups encourage norm breaking behaviour by giving high status to those who break the norms and rules
• hyper masculinity
• Cultural comfort zones

Question 9

willis

Answer 9

• May create and reinforce youth identity through the rejection of education
• anti school subculture
• Boys are labelled as disruptive and are expected to underachieve making them less likely to want to achieve high grades.