Culture and Identity Flashcards
1
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Postman
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- childhood is “disappearing at a rapid speed”
- childhood is only possible if children are kept away and protected from the adult world
- no longer a bridge, between the adult and child world
2
Q
Bradley
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- middle age has a higher status than old age and young as people in this group tend to run the country, such as David Cameron, Borris Johnson
3
Q
Margret Mead
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- storm and stress is associated with youth and only found in some cultures.
4
Q
Hammar Tribe
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- youth is non existent, where childhood ends the day adulthood begins.
5
Q
Corners
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- older people have been socialised into viewing themselves as weak and ugly. Corners found that the negative language they used to describe themselves was similar to the media.
6
Q
POMO
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- Age is ‘fluid’ and less significant due to the availability of anti- ageing products.
7
Q
Featherstone and Hepworth
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- the media represents ageing in a negative way, creating negative stereotype, but it can also promote new identities i.e the comeback of retro fashion.
8
Q
Hockey and James
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- are seen to lack that status of personhood, and are separated and excluded from the public, adult world. Largely confined to ‘specialist places’, such as schools, nurseries, and the family.
- concept of Infantilisation- term “gaga” related to baby noises, and the elderly are also seen as vulnerable and needing of care.
9
Q
Abrahms
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- young people are all part of the same culture: at the same transitional stage.
10
Q
Polemus
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- Youth Is a time for experimenting at the supermarket of styles
11
Q
Neugarten
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- middle age that where interviewed accepted the signs of bodily ageing, changes in family structure.
12
Q
Victor
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- cultural characteristics associated with old age: being dependent and lonely.
13
Q
POMO
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- youth is a media creation
14
Q
Davis
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- some youth are conformist and share their parents views, and they generally get on with it well.
15
Q
Bradley
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- class, and gender differences when identifying with middle age
