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age and identity

niamh bergin Sociology A level English 33 cards

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  1. 1age is probably the only aspect of identity for which we all experience the ???changing effects
  2. 2we will all find our identity affected by how our age makes us feel and how other people relate to us - the world is run by adults and often it is young people / older people whose identities are what ???negatively affected by their age, often due to a lack of status and power
  3. 3age is sometimes looked at chronologically (your actual age), alternatively age is often looked at as a stage in the ???life course
  4. 4what is the problem with looking at stages in the life course ???is that the ages which they start and end vary - they are socially constructed
  5. 5STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : CHILDHOOD: childhood can be seen as socially constructed, in some cultures it is not seen as a period of ????? as it is in the UKinnocence
    dependence
    vulnerability
  6. 6STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : CHILDHOOD: in some countries marriage may be considered at the age of 12/13 - even in the 19th century in the UK children were doing what ?working in factories
  7. 7STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : CHILDHOOD: today it is argued we have a contradictory view with childhood in the UK, children are neither portrayed in the media as what ?little devils or little angels
  8. 8STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : CHILDHOOD: POSTMAN (1982): argues that childhood emerged only when the spread of literacy enabled adults to do what ???shield children from various aspects of adult life - in particular certain aspects of sexuality and certain horrors associated with death and disease
  9. 9STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : CHILDHOOD: POSTMAN (1982): he suggests that the emergence and spread of media and visual culture in the 20th century has brought what ?a decline in childhood and threatens to bring about its disappearance
  10. 10STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUTH: tends to be associated with those between the ages of 12-25 - in our culture youth is socially constructed as a period of what ?transition from childhood to adulthood and time of rebellion / resistance
  11. 11STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUTH: some cultures have no concept of youth as a stage on the life course - through what does childhood end one day and adulthood beginsinitiation ceremonies
  12. 12STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUTH: MEAD (1928): Also argued that the 'storm and stress' associated with youth is ???culturally specific
  13. 13STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUNG ADULTHOOD / MIDDLE AGE: Youth adulthood is normally characterised by what ?career and family
  14. 14STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUNG ADULTHOOD / MIDDLE AGE: most people form relationships, have children and established their careers during this time - they become what from their parents ??independent
  15. 15STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUNG ADULTHOOD / MIDDLE AGE: BRADLEY (1996): argues it has a higher status than youth or old age - middle age people are doing what ??running the country and hold power at work
  16. 16STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUNG ADULTHOOD / MIDDLE AGE: BRADLEY (1996): middle age is also seen as a negative time - why ?as 'youth' is lost and old age comes closer
  17. 17STAGES OF LIFE COURSE : YOUNG ADULTHOOD / MIDDLE AGE: BRADLEY (1996): middle age is associated with negative ideas such as ???'mid-life crisis'
  18. 18STAGES OF LIFE COURSE: OLD AGE: starts at retirement age - but there is a difference between 65 and an 85 year old. UK culture admires what ?youth and beauty of youthful bodies
  19. 19STAGES OF LIFE COURSE: OLD AGE: ageing bodies represent what ?degeneration
  20. 20STAGES OF LIFE COURSE: OLD AGE: CORNER (1999): the language used by older participants about their own identity in corners study was mostly negative - reflecting whatthat language used in media and popular culture
  21. 21STAGES OF LIFE COURSE: OLD AGE: CORNER (1999): participants described the problems of old age for society and the 'burden' of the ??ageing population
  22. 22STAGES OF LIFE COURSE: OLD AGE: CORNER (1999): participants were often concerned with becoming a 'burden' themselves and the dominant stereotype they presented was what ??was of later life being a time of ill-health and dependency
  23. 23Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : children are seen to lack status of personhood and are separated and excluded from the public adult world - largely confined to where ??'specialist places' for children, such as schools, nurseries and the family
  24. 24Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : children are seen as needing what ?care and control
  25. 25Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : old age and childhood are linked as they are socially constructed in a similar way having lost their ??'personhood' status
  26. 26Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : these use what concept to describe how terms such as 'gaga' relate to baby noises + elderly are also seen as helpless and vulnerable / dependent / needing care'infantilisation'
  27. 27Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : in their research of a retirement home they report clients were treated like children - they werent allowed to keep their own money but were given 'pocket money' - what else ?their privacy was taken away, being bathed-dressed and having to be asked to be taken to the toilet
    - their daily routine was decided for them
  28. 28Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : such practices create a what ??self-fulfilling prophecy
  29. 29Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : they do argue that this identity is possible to resist - alternative sources of status may be used to ??retain some power
  30. 30Growing up and growing old - HOCKEY AND JAMES (1993) : it is also possible to resist this status by assuming another one - for example what ??a child acting older
  31. 31CHANGING AGE IDENTITY : postmodernists would look at trends such as living and working for longer, anti-ageing products / procedures and the extension of youth and childhood to show what ??how age is fluid and changing
  32. 32CHANGING AGE IDENTITY : FEATHERSTONE AND HEPWORTH (2005): Argue that media images of ageing which have been the source of negative stereotypes / identities can also do what ??create new identities and suggest that as the population ages more positive images may emerge
  33. 33CHANGING AGE IDENTITY : FEATHERSTONE AND HEPWORTH (2005): the popularity of 'retro' fashions and comeback tours are also trends that help do what ?blur the boundaries of the lifecourse

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A level Sociology (culture, socialisation and identity) Flashcards on age and identity , created by niamh bergin on 08/03/2018.
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