Has age identity changed?

Has age identity changed?

1. Postmodernist

   • age is fluid and becoming less significant today

2. Featherstone and Hepworth

   • Life course has begun to be deconstructed
   • De-differentiation
     • different stages of the life course become less clear
   • Mask of ageing
     • Children are more like adults
     • body maintenance can limit physical differences between age groups
   • Deinstitutionalisation
     • institutions of society become less closely associated with maintaining different phases of the life course

3. Blakie

   • Old age has been broken down because of consumer culture
     • Grey pound