Age and identity: LT9

Question 1

Social dimensions to ageing

Answer 1

There are diffrent norms, values and expectations of behaviour are associated with different ages

Question 2

Social construction of age

Answer 2

What is thought of as childhood and adulthood change over time and between culture

Question 3

Youth culture

Answer 3

identity of young people has often been found in expression through some subcultures

Question 4

Hall and Jefferson

Answer 4

Particularly Skinheads, Punks and teddy boys are example of subcultures resisting to the dominant social class and culture

Question 5

Functionalism: Parson and Bales: Subcultures

Answer 5

Youth subcultures emerge as a way of dealing with status frustration that arises during the transition between childhood and independent adulthood

Question 6

However, what do Marxists suggest about Functionalists views on subcultures

Answer 6

Do not explain the wide variety of subcultures

Question 7

Marxists: Subcultures

Answer 7

Look into the difference between subcultures, particularly in terms of social class positions

Question 8

Handover: Bricolage

Answer 8

Otherwise ordinary, everyday objects are combined to create new styles and identities E.g. Punks using safety pins

Question 9

However, what does Functioanlist Bennett argue about subcultures

Answer 9

Bennett: People taking part in youth subcultures may not see them in the way marxists do

Question 10

Malestream subculture

Answer 10

Many youth culture studies have been done on males. Females are invisible and ignored

Question 11

Feminists: subcultures

Answer 11

Suggest girls are less involved in male dominated subcultures due to gender role socialisation.

Question 12

McRobbie and Garber: Bedroom culture

Answer 12

Girls subcultures focus on activities such as listening to music, make up, beauty and fashion

Question 13

However, what do modern feminists believe subcultures have changed

Answer 13

View has become outdated, women are being seen as more involved in youth subcultures out of the home

Question 14

Postmodernist: subcultures

Answer 14

Reject the concept of subcultures and see it as trying to fit people into a structural box of class gender and ethnicity.
Culture has become fragmented freely chosen

Question 15

Thornton

Answer 15

Youth subcultures have been replaced with media generated, taste based clubs and music culture

Question 16

However, what do Marxists say about P.M views of subcultures :

Answer 16

Over-exaggerate the freedom of choice for young people and social class, gender and ethnicity may still be important

Question 17

Leslett: Third age

Answer 17

Increasing life expectancy and growing economic security has created a new generation of retired people can find fulfilment in ‘third age’

Question 18

Marhankova: Active ageing

Answer 18

Develop new lifestyles and therefore forge new identities for themselves know as active ageing.

Question 19

However, Third age

Answer 19

opportunities in third age vary depending on social class e.g poverty making it harder to establish new identities

Question 20

Ageism

Answer 20

Older people suffer prejudice and discrimination with negative stereotypes with ‘old’ becoming master status