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 43
... questions such as : what is special about ageing identity ? How can links be made across uncertain bound- aries to other social groups ? These questions are almost absent from the cur- rent study of identity and age . Ageing identity is ...
... questions such as : what is special about ageing identity ? How can links be made across uncertain bound- aries to other social groups ? These questions are almost absent from the cur- rent study of identity and age . Ageing identity is ...
Page 76
... questions and purposes to those of the first half of life that is dominated by work . Cole ( 1992 ) emphasizes existential questions provoked by the second half of life and , eventually , closeness to death , which are often ignored by ...
... questions and purposes to those of the first half of life that is dominated by work . Cole ( 1992 ) emphasizes existential questions provoked by the second half of life and , eventually , closeness to death , which are often ignored by ...
Page 77
... questions such as the meaning of life and death . Each of these examples allow us to imagine ways of being old which ... question of what to do with the ' unproductive ' . Yet those who will not or cannot conform to the ' busy ethic ...
... questions such as the meaning of life and death . Each of these examples allow us to imagine ways of being old which ... question of what to do with the ' unproductive ' . Yet those who will not or cannot conform to the ' busy ethic ...
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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