Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Has age identity changed?
- Postmodernist
- age is fluid and becoming less significant today
- Featherstone and Hepworth
- Life course has begun to be deconstructed
- De-differentiation
- different stages of the life course become less clear
- Mask of ageing
- Children are more like adults
- body maintenance can limit physical differences between age groups
- Deinstitutionalisation
- institutions of society become less closely associated with
maintaining different phases of the life course
- Blakie
- Old age has been broken down because of consumer culture
- Grey pound