Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 pages Presents a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. This book explores trends in social policy, drawing on the experience of ageing in the USA, Europe and an increasingly global environment. Particular attention is given to feminist perspectives on ageing, ethics and bio-medicine. |
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Page 42
... possible that the ageing adult will encounter modern challenges to identity in one context and postmodern ones in another . Mod- ernity to postmodernity can now themselves be seen as different possible tra- jectories for identity in ...
... possible that the ageing adult will encounter modern challenges to identity in one context and postmodern ones in another . Mod- ernity to postmodernity can now themselves be seen as different possible tra- jectories for identity in ...
Page 58
... possible alternatives to those proposed by people in the position to manufacture the reigning ideology concerning problems and their solutions ( Therborn 1978 ) . A necessary condition of acquiescence and resignation to policy ' choices ...
... possible alternatives to those proposed by people in the position to manufacture the reigning ideology concerning problems and their solutions ( Therborn 1978 ) . A necessary condition of acquiescence and resignation to policy ' choices ...
Page 68
... possible and then find substitutes for those activities he is forced to relinquish . ( Havighurst et al . 1963 : 419 ) Activity theory provided the better fit with a moral ' problem solving ' approach adopted by the new discipline . It ...
... possible and then find substitutes for those activities he is forced to relinquish . ( Havighurst et al . 1963 : 419 ) Activity theory provided the better fit with a moral ' problem solving ' approach adopted by the new discipline . It ...
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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