age identity

plural age identities

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe age category such as "child", "young adult", "old person", etc. that is part of a person's self-identity.

   Most people's "age identity" appears to be heavy on the declining body and product placement, light on culture.

   2004 January 15, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, “Age Identity Revisited” (chapter 7), in Aged by Culture, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124

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   "You're only as old as you feel." This cultural adage captures an understanding of age as more than simple chronology; rather, age is a construct having social content and personal meaning. This viewpoint is also reflected in a scholarly interest in age identity, or the circumstances under which people attach age labels to themselves and the consequences of those labels.

   1992 December, John R. Logan, Russell Ward, Glenna Spitze, “As Old as You Feel”, in Social Forces, volume 21, number 2, Oxford University Press, →ISSN

   While all identities are inherently dynamic, age identity constitutes a special case of normative identity fluidity and temporality: individuals are expected to belong to different chronologically sequenced age identities over the course of their lives[…]

   2020 January 16, Andrew D. Brown, The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

   One way in which generational studies can inform age identity studies is by leveraging the common age-based generational identity labels of Millennials, Baby Boomers, and Generation X to explore how their associated stereotypes […] can inform self and others' definitions.

   2016 November 26, Emma Parry, Jean McCarthy, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work, Springer Publishing, →ISBN, page 60