Representations of age
- Created by: SabaMasood
- Created on: 21-05-14 02:56
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- Age
- Old age
- Presented as Economic problems: increasing healthcare and pensions
- (Newman)- Rich old people have a high status and especially older men are seen to have higher authority
- Childlike - can do activities they have always wanted to do before death
- (Newman)- Rich old people have a high status and especially older men are seen to have higher authority
- Presented as Economic problems: increasing healthcare and pensions
- Youth
- Media targets the youth for profit
- Portrayed as a social problem... (Cohen) mods and rockers .... Increase in teenage pregnancy
- Drug problems linked to youth (Thornton)
- Portrayed as a social problem... (Cohen) mods and rockers .... Increase in teenage pregnancy
- Media targets the youth for profit
- Childhood
- Romanticised. Also targeted by the media for profit.
- Media has created a toxic childhood (postman)
- Romanticised. Also targeted by the media for profit.
- Old age
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