Traditional Age Identity Flashcards
Childhood and youth identity
They have been socially constructed, children portrayed in the media as little angels and as vulnerable victims or little devils
Childhood/Youth - family
Parsons: period when socialisation into society’s culture takes place, two main functions being the primary socialisation of children and the stabilisation of the adult personalities of the population of society.
Childhood/Youth - Media
Griffin: media portrays youths as a social problem e.g. dysfunctional, suffering a deficit and deviant.
Heintz Knowles - children are motivated most by peer relationships and romance, anti social behaviours which results in positive outcomes and Children from minority ethnic groups are under represented.
Childhood/Youth: Peer groups
MCRobbie - peer groups will use social control e.g. peer pressure, inclusion to reinforce youth identity, young female groups wanting girls to follow traditional female gender norms, bedroom culture.
Sewell - young male peer groups can encourage norm breaking behaviour as some male bees have status, showing the negative role modelling e.g. gangs
Childhood/Youth: Education
Sewell - young African Caribbean, boys didn’t bother putting effort into education as they knew they’d be discriminated against either way, ignore education and attempt to follow rapper role models.
Willis - young working class boys, didn’t value education as they knew when they grow up they will go into the same manual labour jobs as their fathers.
Middle age identity: Family
Brannen - pivot generation, idea of middle aged people carry the responsibility of caring for their children and their parents so they swing between the two. Dual burden, double responsibility suffered by the middle age population.
Middle age identity: Media
Saunders - conspicuous consumption, spending on goods and services acquired mainly for the purpose of displaying income or wealth.
Middle age identity: Peer groups
Hodkinson - primary feature of a subculture means being part of something, this sense of belonging could continue into middle age e.g. goths.
Middle age identity: Peer groups
Hodkinson - primary feature of a subculture means being part of something, this sense of belonging could continue into middle age e.g. goths.
Middle age identity: Workplace
Willis - both boys and their fathers, their jobs were a key source of identity, defined themselves as manual workers and membership to this occupation.
Max an Ghail - men in his study felt a loss of identity, loss of role as a breadwinner led to them feeling loss of status and identity
Old age identity: Family
Parsons - elderly have less status in society, lose their most important social role within the family, isolated from the children who tend to focus more on their marriage partners
Old age identity: Media
Carrigan and Szmigin - order, consumers have grown in number and afluence in the UK, portrayed in advertisement than younger people, negative images.
Sontag - double standard of aging, women are required to be useful throughout their media careers, and men are not.
Landis - age concern, and identified a number of stereotypes e.g. grumpy old man, feisty, old woman, and depressed or lonely.
Old age identity: Peer groups
Clarke and Warren - old age may be a time to make new friends and engage in new interest. Inclusion into such activities may define an old age, identity, active aging.
Old age identity: Workplace
Johnson - ageism occurs in the workplace in UK. Ages and is industrialised and embedded in practices. In the workplace, it is expressed to the stereotypical assumptions about a persons competency to do a job
Old age identity: Religion
Voas - so suggested that all the people are much more likely to identify themselves as being religious, because the generational effect and the aging effect.
