Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: Critical PerspectivesMcGraw-Hill Education, 2003 M11 1 - 200 pages In this important new book, three leading social theorists of old age present a critical review of key theoretical developments and issues influencing the study of adult ageing. The authors explore contemporary 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, successful and productive ageing, globalization and migration and the politics of ageing. Consideration is given in each case to the interaction between structural influences on social ageing and the experience of age and identity. The work ends with a manifesto for social theory, social policy and social change. Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing will be valuable reading for advanced students and practitioners taking courses in social theory, the sociology of old age and social gerontology. |
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Page 81
... nature of human interaction . It separates off the holder of ' real ' knowledge from the rest . Validity , in other words , becomes colonized by exclusively professional understandings of adult ageing . Within the hegem- ony of ...
... nature of human interaction . It separates off the holder of ' real ' knowledge from the rest . Validity , in other words , becomes colonized by exclusively professional understandings of adult ageing . Within the hegem- ony of ...
Page 88
... natural progress . And while Callahan ( 1987 ) maintains that the life course is ' a biographical not a biological defin- ition ' , he does appear to believe that it contains natural stages and a natural duration . Death becomes ...
... natural progress . And while Callahan ( 1987 ) maintains that the life course is ' a biographical not a biological defin- ition ' , he does appear to believe that it contains natural stages and a natural duration . Death becomes ...
Page 100
... nature of the arguments that can be had , discussions of health status can easily degener- ate into a moral economy of individual worthiness . A moral imperative to stay healthy privileges the individual character of earlier lifestyle ...
... nature of the arguments that can be had , discussions of health status can easily degener- ate into a moral economy of individual worthiness . A moral imperative to stay healthy privileges the individual character of earlier lifestyle ...
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Social theory and ageing | 8 |
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Desire for continuity | 31 |
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