Age and Identity Sociologists

Parsons (Young Identities)

Independence from from family, transition to adolecence

Griffin (Young Identities)

Deviant

Dysfunctional

Suffering a deficit

Heintz-knowles (young Identities)

Children portrayed in TV eg girls show more affection than boys, boys are more aggressive, peer group influence

McRobbie (Young generation)

Bedroom culture, cult of feminimity, Traditional gender roles, youth spend leisure time with friends in bedroom

Sewell (Young Identities)

Peers group encourage hyper-masculinity, norm breaking behaviour, anti school subculture, Black boys felt like the system was racist

Willis (Young Identities)

The Lads, went to school to mess about and had no other aims or goals, follow fathers footsteps

Brennen (Middle Identity)

Pivot generation, dual burden, responsibility

Saunders (Middle Identities)

Conspicuos consumption, disposable income, peer approval

Hodkins (Middle Identities)

Goths, sense of belonging, community

Willis (Middle Identities)

The Lads, followed fathers footsteps, manual jobs

Mac an Ghail (Middle Identities)

Crisis of masculinity, loss of identity and status, no longer bread winner

Parsons (Old Identities)

Loss of social Identity, disengagement from family

Carrigam and szmigins (Old Identities)

Old people arent portrayed in advertisements, women are required to be youthful

Landis (Old Identities)

Stereotypes, old people, one dimensional eg grumpy old man

Clarke and Warren (Old Identities)

Active ageing, university of the Third age

Johnson (Old Identities)

Ageism in the work place, stereotyped as being bad at their job, harder for old people to get a job

Voas (Old Identities)

Old people brought up in religious era, aging effect = more spiritual

Featherstone and Hepworth (Old Identities)

De-differenttiation, De-institutionalistation, mask of aging, baby boomer

Hockey and James (Old Identities)

Old age 'infantilised', Childhood and old age are socially constructed because they have lost their "personhood status".

De-differentiation

The process by which the difference of the life course becomes less clear

Deinstitutionalisation

The process by which the institutions of the society become less closely associated with maintaining different phases of the life course

Sontag (Old Identities)

women are required to be youthful, double standard