Identity

Question 1

Bradley

Answer 1

identifies five generational major stages in age identity in the UK:
–Childhood
–Adolescence or youth
–Young adulthood
–Mid-life
–Old age

Question 2

Mead

Answer 2

not all cultures have a concept of youth.
Hamar tribe moves overnight from child to adult.

Question 3

Pilcher

Answer 3

notes that old people are often described in derogatory ways such as ‘old fogey’, ‘old biddy’, ‘old bat’ or ‘sweet little…’ – These stereotypes are a way to marginalise the old and label them as inferior.

Question 4

James and hockey

Answer 4

Link old age and childhood

Old people are ‘infantilised’
Locked away in care homes
Given ‘pocket money’, had to ask for toilet
Lack privacy, no sex

Question 5

Corner

Answer 5

Language used by old people about themselves was negative

Question 6

What age is childhood

Answer 6

0-12

Question 7

What age is youth

Answer 7

12-25

Question 8

Murgugami (2009)

Answer 8

argues a disabled person has the ability to construct a self-identity

Question 9

Watson

Answer 9

Disabled people respond to the constant assumption that they
are helpless and dependent by developing low self-esteem
This is known as the self fulfilling prophecy.

Question 10

Zola

Answer 10

Vocabulary of disability is negative and discriminatory

Question 11

Shakespeare

Answer 11

Disabled people are socialised into seeing themselves as victims

Question 12

Cashmore and Troyna (1990)

Answer 12

Ethnic minorities ‘turn inwards’, seek support from their own ethnic community as a response to racism

Question 13

Modood

Answer 13

2nd generation ethnic minorities felt more British than their parents

Question 14

Functionalist (ethnicity)

Answer 14

argue ethnic minorities should adapt to their new

Question 15

Postmodernists (ethnicity)

Answer 15

argue for hybridity and choice in a globalised world

Question 16

Marxists (ethnicity)

Answer 16

link race to capitalism and argue ethnic identity still causes inequality.