Age and Identity
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- Created on: 05-05-18 18:14
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- Age and Identity
- Social attitudes
- Age can be seen as a social construct
- The way society views a certain age group affects people behaviour and treatment of eachother
- People can see their identity as being part of a generation
- The law affects how different age groups are treated
- Bradley - age is less important in identity than other factors such as age, class etc.
- This is because people know their age is temporary
- The media
- The media can influence social attitudes
- Lambert - found that older men were often portrayed in positions of power.
- Children are often portrayed as innocent
- teenage characters in TV soaps are often a bit wild.
- Marxism
- Attitudes to age are influenced by capitalism
- Adults are people of working age and elderly are too old for work
- Phillipson - capitalism views the elderly as a burden on society
- Old age becomes a stigmatised identity
- Life expectancy
- The UK has an ageing population
- Giddens - argues that longer life expectancy has an effect on family life
- Postmodernists argue that attitudes to old age are changing
- Featherstone and Hepworth - magazines aimed at older people portray an image of youthful old age.
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