Positive representations for youth: Academic, hardworking, active, sociable, modern and volatile.
Positive representations for old people: Caring, kind, wise, settled, authoritative and stable.
Negative representations for youth: Lazy, ignorant, noisy, intimidating, frivalous, sexualised, associated with drugs, alcohol, violence. Headonistic, rude, dependent, hoodies, teen pregnancy and asbos.
Negative representations for old people: Grumpy, anti-youths, rude, traditional, arrogant, weak, slow, boring, vulnerable, dependent, fragile, smelly, racist and mentally incompetent.
Binary opposition: If one thing is something then the other thing is the opposite.
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