Culture and Identity Age
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- Created on: 01-05-18 15:09
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- Age
- There are different norms. values and expectations of behaviour associated with different ages
- Expectations of different age groups vary in societies e.g in some societies old people have status and authority
- Your age can have a impact on your own sense of identity and how you see yourself
- Bradley
- Age becomes a significant part in identity in two age groups - Younger people, like teenagers and older people who are retired
- Older people today are healthier, more active and more affluent than they have evr been
- Older people often encounter 'ageism' - caused by negative media portayals
- Young people express their identity through youth subculutres
- With related style of dress. appearance, language, behaviour and music
- E.g Goths, Teddy Boys, Hippies and Skingheads
- Functionalist
- Youth subcultures as a way of dealing with status frustration
- Marxist
- Hall and Jefforson
- Working-class youth subcultures are subcultures of resistance to the dominant social class
- Hall and Jefforson
- Interactionalists
- Cohen
- Youth subcultures are manufactured by media stereotyping, exaggeration and distortion of the activities of young people who are often represented only as anti-social troublemakers
- Cohen
- Feminist
- Hollands
- Contemporary young women are now more involved in sub-cultures outside school - with females going out more - compared to the 1970s and 1980s
- Young women are now more involved in dance and drug subcultures
- Hollands
- Postmodernist
- Thornton
- 'Subcultures' are meta narrative that try to fit young identities into a social structure
- Bennet
- Youth are no longer forming cohesive youth subcultures
- They mix 'n' matching identities from a range of possibilities open in a media-saturated consumer society
- Youth are no longer forming cohesive youth subcultures
- Bennet
- 'Subcultures' are meta narrative that try to fit young identities into a social structure
- Thornton
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