representation

• age
• gender
• sexuality
• ethnicity

Age

the way people dress and look. Physical, psychological and socail change.
chronological ageing - refers to how old a person is. social ageing (societys expectations of how people should act as they grow older) biologocal ageing (an organism's physical state as it ages)
Age can be used as another important category to file or categorise people. As we categorise people we are using our own judgements to justify our reasons.


Gender

ways to identify someones gender.

• way they look
• way they dress
• how they talk
• how they walk

Sexual identity

• heterosexual
• homosexual
• heterosexism
• bisexual
• attraction
• homophobic
• transgender

Ethnicity

Race and ethnicity is part of everyday life. Some places have specific places for different races for example China town in London.

ways to identify different ethnicity

• way they look
• way they dress
• the way they talk may speak in native language or in broken English.

Status

• character role
• occupation
• job authority
• social authority
• conversation topic

Physical attributes

• race
• age
• accent
• physical attractiveness
• body type
• dress/attire