hybrid identity and sociologists

age and gender

**Sontag**

* suggests that there is a double standard of ageing especially in television where women are required to look youthful.
* Moira Stewart was retired by the BBC at the age of 58 while her male co-presenters we're allowed to carry on beyond retirement age

sexuality and class

**Yvette Taylor**

* studied the experience of working class lesbian parents
* found that the participants found it more difficult than middle class parents to consult with professionals such as doctors to help their children
* found that kinds of places where working class children could be taken for help and support were not very welcoming of lesbians

ethnicity and gender

**Bhatti**

* found that in Asian families, family honour was taken very seriously with particular emphasis on behaviour of girls
* found that mothers so their family rose as being of paramount importance - motherhood and proud rearing was regarded as most important role in life

 

age, gender coma ethnicity and culture

**Marsh and Keating**

* sometimes age cannot be understood properly unless in the context of other identity's. The way in which particular age groups or generations are treated is often shaped by influences such as gender social class and ethnicity
* for example experience of being an elderly African Caribbean woman may be different from that of being a white middle-aged elderly man
* marsh and Keating observed different cultures attached different cultural meanings and values to different age groups that shape our behaviour in terms of how we respond to others of the same generation

Social class and gender

**Man Yee Kan**

* suggests that middle class women do less housework than their working class counterparts
* every 10,000 pounds increase in a women's annual income reduces the time she spends on chores every week by nearly two hours and educated women tend to do less housework than women who left school at 16
* Explained by the fact that well off women can afford to employ others to do the housework

ethnicity, class and gender

**Rose M Brewer**

* argues that black women suffer disadvantages because they are black, female and often working class
* each inequality reinforces an multiplies the other inequalities
* for example black working class women are exploited by capitalism because they are working class and less likely to get a job because of their race and likely to be paid less because of their gender

Gender and sexuality

**McCormack and Anderson**

* found that homophobic views against male heterosexual six form students was listening
* demonstrated pro gay attitude's and showed affection through physical intimacy
* however they still had an assumption that heterosexuality was the norm and was still privileged

ethnicity and nationality

**Darcus Howe**

* Argued that he can comfortably see himself as black and British but that a growth of English nationalism seems more exclusive and white leading him to question a where he would fit in a new nationalistic England
* therefore feeling that being English or British is synonymous with being white can exclude some groups