Age and Disabled Identities Sociologists

Parsons (Child/Youth Identity)

Parsons (Child/Youth Identity)

Children learn norms and values in primary socialisation, primary socialisation of children, stabilisation of adult personalities of the population of society and adolescence is when children gain independence

Griffin (Child/Youth Identity)

Media portrays youths as: deviant, dysfunctional and suffering deficit

Heintz-Knowles (Child/Youth Identity)

Children presented in entertainment television, children in minority ethnic groups are under-represented, girls are twice as likely as boys to show affection and boys are more likely to use physical aggression

McRobbie (Child/Youth Identity)

Youth subcultures ignored girls, girls had smaller roles, subcultures were male dominated, self-fulfilling prophecy for girls, position for women is structurally different from men, bedroom culture and girls lack qualifications and limited job opportunities so unlikely to support themselves enough so marriage was only option

Sewell (Child/Youth Identity)

Black boys in media, peer groups have influence, lack male role model and cultural comfort zones

Willis (Child/Youth Identity)

Boys saw manual work as superior, counter school subculture, ‘shop floor’, hegemonic masculinity, anti-school and follow in fathers footsteps

Brannen (Middle Age Identity)

Informal care responsibilities, middle age you shoulder caring responsibilities and caring for children as well as elderly parents

Saunders (Middle Age Identity)

Consumption, media targets middle age and highest disposable income

Hodkinson (Middle Age Identity)

Subculture means being part of something and Goths

Willis (Middle Age Identity)

Jobs ‘lads’ went in to were related to their father’s and manual jobs key source of identity

Mac an Ghail (Middle Age Identity)

men became redundant from steel work jobs, loss identity from tight knight communities and loss of breadwinner status

Parsons (Old Age Identity)

Elderly have less status, lose important role in family, isolated from children, disengagement theory and socially constructed

Carrigan and Szmigin (Old Age Identity)

Media shows older consumers have grown in number, less likely portrayed in advertisements and negative images

Sontag (Old Age Identity)

Double standard of ageing in television and women required to be youthful

Landis (Old Age Identity)

Age concern, stereotypes in representations of older people and one-dimensional

Clarke and Warren (Old Age Identity)

New friends, new interests, active ageing, age identified in stages and university of the third age

Johnson (Old Age Identity)

Ageism, institutionalised and stereotypical assumptions of a person’s competency

Voas (Old Age Identity)

Religious, generational effect and aging effect

Hockey and James (Old Age Identity)

Children lack status of personhood, confined to ‘specialist places’, opposite of adults and infantalisation

Featherstone and Hepworth (Changing Age Identities Postmodernism)

Life course begun to be deconstructed, de-differentiation, deinstitutionalisation and mask of aging

Blaikie (Changing Age Identities Postmodernism)

Attitudes to retirement have changed, consumer culture, retired are an important consumer and the grey £

Clarke and Warren (Changing Age Identities Postmodernism)

New friends, new interests, active ageing, age identified in stages and university of the third age

The Medical Model (Disabled Identities)

Disability is a medical problem and ‘victim-blaming’ mentality

Shakespeare (Disabled Identities)

‘Victim mentality’ and isolation

The Social Model (Disabled Identities)

Social and physical barriers of disability, link to workplace and disability is socially constructed

Ridley (Disabled Identities)

Comedian, cerebral palsy and Scope UK

Barnes (Disabled Identities)

Media shows disability as oppressive, negative and not own identities

Gill (Disabled Identities)

‘Learned Helplessness’

Murugami (Disabled Identities)

Disability is a second characteristic and human condition rather than impairment

Scrambler (Disabled Identities)

Disability Rights Movement

Oliver (Disabled Identities)

Who is and is not able to work