age and identity

Question 1

childhood

Answer 1

varies between cultures
- children are ither portrayed as angels or devils and delinquents
- they grow up quicker than previous eras

Question 2

childhood - postman

Answer 2

childhood emerged only when the spread of literacy enabled adults to better shield children from various aspects of adult life
- emergence of media and visual culture brought a decline in childhood and threatened its existance

Question 3

youth

Answer 3

socially constructed as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood and a time of rebellion

Question 4

youth - examples

Answer 4

the hamar tribe
- childhood ends one day and adulthood begins

Question 5

young adulthood

Answer 5

characterised by career and family
seen as a negative time as youth is lost
‘mid life crisis’ ‘empty nest syndrome’

Question 6

young adulthood - bradley

Answer 6

they have higher status than youth or old age due to stronger capital

Question 7

old age

Answer 7

UK culture admires the beauty of youthfulness and aging bodies represent ugliness and degeneration

Question 8

old age - corner

Answer 8

participants described the problmes of old age and the burden of the aging population
- conerned with becomign a burden themselves and the dominant stereotype they presented was of ill health and dependancy

Question 9

changing age identities - postmodernist

Answer 9

trends such as livign and working for longer, antib aging products

Question 10

changing age identities - featherstone and hepworth

Answer 10

media images of aging are a source of negative stereotypes, they can create new identities and suggest that more positive images may emerge
- popularity of retro fashions help blur boundaries of life course