POSTMODERN THEORY Flashcards
Cohen - ‘folk devils’
Media creation of a ‘youth culture’.
Polemus.
Focus on youth being a non-homogeneous group shopping at the ‘supermarket of style’.
Lackzo & Phillipson - early retirement.
Researched early retirement and found that inequality faced by some elderly was due to wealth not age.
Featherstone & Hepworth.
Traditional explanations of age inequality focus too much on imaginary boundaries of age.
Blaikie - positive.
Discusses the idea of positive ageing, which agrees with the idea of a fourth age filled with active but leisure-based pursuits.
Powell - mask of old age.
Priestley, author, stated that for him ageing was like someone had kidnapped him and made him old.
Powell & Biggs - cosmetics.
Some fight age with the use of new technology and cosmetic surgery. This allows some to continually re-create themselves.
Vincent - Global Capitalism.
Still a major determinant of age inequality. Decreasing labour market stability has increased uncertainty.
