I'm sure riding a motorcycle would be excellent therapy, balance, cognitive, wrist, fingers, It would map quite well with Peter Levines; What if you made it harder? And I like the idea of being deviant, I'm sure women over 50 riding motorcycles would be considered super deviants.
- DOI:
- 10.1080/01639625.2013.822232
pages 233-242
Publishing models and article dates explained
Received: 12 Apr 2013
Accepted: 4 May 2013
Published online: 08 Nov 2013
Article Views: 27
Abstract
Age
norms tell us at what ages members of society consider it appropriate
for us to become potty trained, enter and exit school, start and stop
driving a car, get married, have children, retire from work, and even
die. So, at what age, if any, should a person start riding a motorcycle?
More importantly, at what age should a motorcyclist stop riding? The
author conducted ethnographic interviews with approximately 90
motorcyclists over the age of fifty. Findings in this study indicate
that just as society has established “social clocks” for other personal
and social activities, informal norms operate to establish age
boundaries for riding motorcycles. Today's Baby Boomers, in their quest
to be “forever young,” however, seem to be stretching and breaking those
boundaries, redefining previous limitations on a wide variety of
activities, including motorcycling. Although the stigma once associated
with motorcycling is waning rapidly, some people still view
motorcyclists as deviant. Even those who see riding a motorcycle as a
non-deviant mainstream activity, however, tend to view motorcycling as
the domain of the young and view motorcyclists over the age of fifty as
violating age norms.
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