Is Age a Construct?

In the 19 eighties and ardy nineties, it was perfectly acceptable to portray two men who were 35 and 33 as being past it. The media are referring to that age group as young people today. But if you look at the meteor reports in ireland recently, when they speak about home ownership and are talking about young people, they're talking about people who are 33 and 35. It high lights how age really is a construct as such. Are our perception of what age means is a bit of a construct? In the 19 fifties, teen ages just became this thing. There was no such thing as teen ages. Before the 19 f50s, you were a child