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AS Sociology

AS Sociology. Topic 6 – Age identities. Middle Age. Victor – (2005) associated with people in the 40s and 50s, Norms and values centred around the family and work, Bradley – tend to have a high status in society,

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  1. AS Sociology Topic 6 – Age identities

  2. Middle Age • Victor – (2005) associated with people in the 40s and 50s, • Norms and values centred around the family and work, • Bradley – tend to have a high status in society, • Middle age seen as a time for reflection and evaluation – past, present and future (middle age crisis)

  3. Socialisation process in middle age • Difficulties in identifying common norms and values, • Middle age people seen to be negotiating both elder parents and teenage children so the family seen as important agent of socialisation, • Middle aged people also seen to be at the peak of their careers thus work is also considered a key agent of socialisation.

  4. Socialisation process in middle age • Media, religion, and peers are seen to have varying levels of influence on the middle aged with regards to their life choices at that stage, • Blaikie identifies this period as associated with the following concepts: • Maturity, • Independence, • Responsibility.

  5. OLD AGE

  6. OLD AGE • People are not considered old until later in life – why? See p.95

  7. What do you think ? • Individually, write 10 words which you associate with old people, • Compare those with the ones written by the person seated next to you, • Which of the words you have both written can be seen as positive and negative.

  8. Feedback

  9. VICTOR argues: stereotypes surrounding old age are mostly negative

  10. e.g. low status, loneliness, ill health, dependency

  11. But many reject these stereotypes – eg. are sexually active, new partners learning new skills

  12. MEDIA Role models in the media are limited / negative eg. helpless, ill, unhappy, cross

  13. MEDIA • In recent years more positive role models have emerged (link to younger-old) eg?

  14. FAMILY Infantilisation – what is this? See p.96 Decline of extended family – how does this effect old people?

  15. WORK Oftenrejected because don’t work Gannon argues that women are doubly discriminated against in old age – how?

  16. RELIGION Bruce – why might older people need religion as a ‘cultural defence’? See p.96 Malinowski – what is the function of religion for the old?

  17. PEERS Why might women in particular fear isolation from peers in old age? (see p. 96– Arber and Ginn)

  18. 21st century elderly ? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjljqReu1I

  19. Reading Task • Read through key study 10 in your pack and create a battenburg diagram.

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