middle age identity

Question 1

brannen

Answer 1

• Researched informal care responsibilities and roles and claimed that the Middle Ages are a period where responsibilities take place such as caring for children and parents.
• pivot generation
• Dual burden

Question 2

Dual burden

Answer 2

mainly women experience dual burden due to their responsibilities of taking care of children and parents and doing the housework.

Question 3

pivot generation

Answer 3

Middle Ages take care of both children and their own parents

Question 4

saunders

Answer 4

• media may create and reinforce middle age identity through advertising and targeting those who are middle age
• studied consumption and claimed that those who satisfy their needs through ownership of various goods are heavily influenced by advertisments, Middle Ages are those who have the highest disposable income and often define their identity by what they own
• conspicuous consumption

Question 5

Hodkinson

Answer 5

• Peer groups May create and reinforce middle age identity through inclusion. - -They may associate with others who also share the same norms and values, creating a subculture
• Due to the sense of inclusion and belonging in friendship groups, he suggested that it ‘feels odd’ to leave the subculture.

Question 6

Willis

Answer 6

• workplace may create and reinforce middle age identities as their jobs and careers are a main key to their identity which dominates how they identity themselves
• studied the types of jobs these boys went into and how they related to their fathers careers.
• manual labour jobs and found out that their jobs were a key to how they defined themselves.
• efined themselves as manual workers and their membership and occupation was essential to their middle age identity

Question 7

Mac an ghaill

Answer 7

Found that once these men were made redundant, they felt a loss of identity of being a breadwinner which made them feeling a loss of identity and status