Paper 1 - Age identity Flashcards
Chronological age
actual age, biological years
brings status and roles, instinct about how we should act
Age, stages of life
stages of life ppl pass, thru life course
age socially constructed
Postman (childhood,shield)
childhood merged when spread of literacy allowed adults to shield children from various aspects of adult life ‘innocent’ chid was created
Palmer (toxic)
UK children experiencing ‘toxic childhood syndrome’
Youth - Hebdige (punk) {marxist}
rebellion and resist norm
bricolage - safety pins as earings
Youth - Clarke (skinhead) {marxist}
youth based around rebellion and resistance against low status in society
Youth - Polhemus (Postmodernism)
supermarket of style all about choice
young ppl create their identity
Youth - Willis
youth time fro growing up, most no deviant behaviour, identify as ‘normal’
Youth - Eisenstadt (consensus, belonging) {functionalism}
youth culture binds young ppl to society, value consensus, feeling of belonging
trasnsitional period to rebel clarifies norms/values, conformity
Youth - Parson (compulsory education) {functionalist}
youth category from change in family due to capitalism youth dont need to work to support bcs of compulsary education
learn independence and take adult status e.g. uni, moving out
Youth - Maffesoli (neo-tribes) {postmodernist}
youth don’t belong to one subculture, they switch thru many
try diff clothes, music, styles -. neo-tribes
Adulthood - Bradley (status)
charactrised by family and career, independant from parental families
higher status, linked closely to careers
Middle age - Victor
development between young adulthood and old age, 40s to 50s
Middle age
view life diff, children leave home ‘empty nest syndrome’
‘mid-life crisis’
Old age - Mckingsley (opss/barriers)
social category that brings new roles, assumptions, opps and barriers
