Age Identities and Socialisation

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Mind Map on Age Identities and Socialisation, created by tamzinpenny17 on 03/31/2014.
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Age Identities and Socialisation
  1. Youth Identity
    1. The Family
      1. Gardner et al.
        1. Found that although parents and teenages are choosing to spend more time together than 25 years ago, parents are increasingly concerned about perceived risks that their children are exposed to and are reacting with increased monitoring and control.
          1. The Guardia reported on parents who were having their 11 year old daughter micro-chipped.
            1. However, Furedi argues that parents fears are being over-exaggerated
        2. Education
          1. Sewell 2000
            1. Found that AC boys fromed their youth identity in school in one of two ways.
              1. Either they becone 'rebels' or 'retreatists', identites that are resistant against the wider school and teachers.
          2. The Media
            1. Muncie
              1. Youths are represented as deviant and troublesome. There representation are importnatbecause they influence popular culture.
                1. Thornton argued that the media are laargely responsible for the creation of youth culture and identities
                  1. From music to advertising, there is a clear association of style with youth.
                2. Cohen
                  1. Was the first sociologist to observe how newpapers tend to sensationalize and exaggerate the behaviour of groups of young people in order to create newsworthiness
                    1. His study described how fights between two sets of youths in 1964 ('mods' and 'rockers') produced a moral panic
                3. The Peer Group
                  1. Shain 2003
                    1. Studied how groups of Asian girls developed distinct identities in a secondary school through girl gangs as a way of coping with school.
                    2. McRobbie and Garber 1976
                      1. Argue that girls have subcultures that are less obviouslt rebellious than those of males. Bedroom subcultures.
                    3. Religion
                      1. Mirza 2007
                        1. Carried out research to find out what constitutes a Muslim identity in the UK
                          1. One of her findingss was that there has been a general increase in the perceptio of religious and cultural identity among second and third generation Muslims. Indicators of this include wearing og headscarves among Muslim young women
                    4. Old Age
                      1. The Media
                        1. Ageism is often relected through mass media representations of youth and old age.
                          1. Advertising reinforces the view that apperance of youth is central to looking good and that ageing should be avoided at all costs.
                            1. As a result, adverts for anti-ageing creams and hairdyes are common on TV.
                          2. Ageism may also be refelcted thruogh the under-representation of middle-aged and elderly women as presenters on news etc.
                            1. Sontag 1978
                              1. Suggests that there is a double-standard of ageing, whereby women are required to be youthful throughout their careers and men are not.
                          3. Religion
                            1. Voas and Rockett 2005
                              1. Note that old pople are much more likely to idenitfy themselves are being religious There are two main reasons for this
                                1. First, a factor called the generational effect - old pole were brought up in a much more religious era and their socialization into religious values was much more intense.
                            2. The Workplace
                              1. Arber and Ginn
                                1. Suggest that ageism against the elderly is reinforced by emploument practices such as redundancy, unemployment and retirement
                                2. Bradley
                                  1. Notes that old peopleare often seen as less suitable for employment because they are assumed to be 'physically slow, lacking in dynamism and not very adaptable to change'.
                                  2. Retirement often marks the onset of old age and it can have a negative effect on people's identities.
                                    1. It can lead to a loss of status, self-respect and self-purpose.
                                    2. Giddens
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