Gerontology And The Construction Of Old Age

Author : Bryan Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135132862X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age written by Bryan Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of study and practice. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age applies the methods of discourse analysis and textual analysis to texts and documents in this newly evolved and eclectic fi eld. Green explores and identifies the literary methods and discursive regularities through which aging and the aged have been made into objects of study and treatment, and which together form a mode of knowledge production that will infl uence future texts in the field.Because such formats of representation limit rational diagnoses of problems and rational courses of ameliorative action, policy implications in the fi eld of gerontology are a major interest of this study. Another interest is methodological. Within the broader constructionist approach to social reality, Green takes the position of "constitutive realism": the notion that social reality is linguistically constructed, primarily in speech and writing.The book's two aims are to describe analytically the fi eld of gerontology. The field is important both for its growing academic presence and for its practical eff ects on discourse and policy concerning old age. It also hopes to help develop possibilities of inquiry associated with the linguistic, literary, and rhetorical turns of social science in recent years. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age is a substantive investigation, at considerable theoretical depth, of gerontology itself, as well as a methodological treatise with broader implications for social science as it focuses upon the discourse of various professional fields.

Author : Chris Phillipson
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age written by Chris Phillipson and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present recession is hitting particularly hard at elderly people, especially as it coincides with increasing numbers in the 60+ age group in many industrial capitalist countries. The broad dimensions of demographic change are well understood and are not centrally considered in this book, which aims, rather, to develop a critical account of the position of elderly people in society, the emergence of retirement as part of the human life cycle, and the social - rather than the psychological or biological - problems of aging in a society characterised by major inequalities in the distribution of power, income and property." -- from inside cover.

Author : Bryan S. R. Green
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202362557
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age written by Bryan S. R. Green and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of study and practice. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age applies the methods of discourse analysis and textual analysis to texts and documents in this newly evolved and eclectic fi eld. Green explores and identifies the literary methods and discursive regularities through which aging and the aged have been made into objects of study and treatment, and which together form a mode of knowledge production that will infl uence future texts in the field. Because such formats of representation limit rational diagnoses of problems and rational courses of ameliorative action, policy implications in the fi eld of gerontology are a major interest of this study. Another interest is methodological. Within the broader constructionist approach to social reality, Green takes the position of "constitutive realism": the notion that social reality is linguistically constructed, primarily in speech and writing. The book's two aims are to describe analytically the fi eld of gerontology. The field is important both for its growing academic presence and for its practical eff ects on discourse and policy concerning old age. It also hopes to help develop possibilities of inquiry associated with the linguistic, literary, and rhetorical turns of social science in recent years. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age is a substantive investigation, at considerable theoretical depth, of gerontology itself, as well as a methodological treatise with broader implications for social science as it focuses upon the discourse of various professional fi elds. Bryan S. Green is professor emeritus of sociology at York University. He is the author of Knowing the Poor: A Case-Study in Textual Reality Construction and Literary Methods and Sociological Theory. His research interests include the application of textual and discourse analysis to gerontology and the literary construction of policy reports. Roberta R. Greene is the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare at the University of Texas at Austin. Robert G. Blundo is professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington.

Author : Margaret Cruikshank
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742565955
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Be Old written by Margaret Cruikshank and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is 'successful aging' our responsibility? What will happen if we fail to 'grow old gracefully'? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the United States is growing rather than diminishing. Gender, race, and sexual orientation have been reinterpreted as socially constructed phenomena, yet aging is still seen through physically constructed lenses. The second edition of Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old helps put aging in a new light, neither romanticizing nor demonizing it. Featuring new research and analysis, expanded sections on gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender aging and critical gerontology, and an updated chapter on feminist gerontology, the second edition even more thoroughly than the first looks at the variety of different forces affecting the progress of aging. Cruikshank pays special attention to the fears and taboos, multicultural traditions, and the medicalization and politicization of natural processes that inform our understanding of age. Through it all, we learn a better way to inhabit our age whatever it is.

Author : Haim Hazan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521447485
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Age written by Haim Hazan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haim Hazan is a leading specialist on old age in anthropology, and has published several books on particular communities of old people. The latest book is an essay on the realities of old age, as it is experienced, as opposed to the ideas about the old current in western societies. It argues that the construction of this world by outsiders is inevitably affected by deeply ingrained social attitudes and structures, such as the spatial segregation of the aged as a population, and the fear of death with which they are associated. By approaching the subject from the social constructionist perspective, and by drawing on a variety of detailed ethnographic accounts, the author describes a unique and nuanced social world. This is a sophisticated and original book, which should have a significant impact on a field still dominated by a 'social problems' approach.

Author : Chris Phillipson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446235201
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Old Age written by Chris Phillipson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-10-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences associated with later life as we move into a new century. The book critically reviews the different theoretical explanations which attempt to explain these changes. Phillipson shows how in late modernity changes to pensions, employment and retirement, and intergenerational relations, are placing doubt on the meaning of growing old. He suggests that later life is being reconstructed as a period of potential choice on the one hand, but also of risk and danger on the other. This book will be essential reading for students and academics in social gerontology, as well as for students and academics in sociology, social policy and related disciplines interested in the future of an ageing population and the future of social gerontology.

Author : Graham D. Rowles, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 082610813X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Gerontology written by Graham D. Rowles, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Author : Bryan S. R. Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110141306
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age written by Bryan S. R. Green and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Biggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351863274
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Need for Theory written by Simon Biggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world. Using their keen insights into substantive issues, the contributors examine personal and structural changes affecting individuals over the life course. Extolling the need for theory is not enough; the contributors focus their insights on a panoply of substantive issues, linking the personal with the political and with the structural parameters that shape the process of aging, no matter where it occurs.

Author : Grit Höppner
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889458636
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Materialities of Age and Ageing: Concepts of a Material Gerontology written by Grit Höppner and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gerontological research the understanding of age and ageing changed in the last decade. Biologic determined explanations no longer prevail in this research field. Instead, ideas of social constructivism are frequently used. These ideas define the state of age and the process of ageing as social constructions, steeping ageing in social and cultural assumptions, ascriptions, and expectations. From a social constructivist perspective, age and ageing are not (just) identified as dependency, deficit, and need for care – as it was foremost accelerated from a biological perspective – but with the life course and thus with individual lifestyles, experiences, attitudes and practices, as well as institutional and economic structures. A prominent social constructivist concept is “doing age.” Similar to “doing gender” the concept of “doing age” assumes age as taking place in the form of a social praxis within everyday life interactions between people and thus in performances, embedded in discourses, through which social hierarchies and ideals proceed. Despite the paradigm shift that social constructivist concepts enable in gerontological thinking, they reveal their blind spot when it comes to the materiality of ageing and thus to fleshy-sensual experiences, human and non-human ontologies and agencies. Addressing these materialities of ageing brings up its own critique on definitions of ageing bodies and material environments. This framing does not presume that age and ageing are solely products of human-to-human interactions or those of formative environments or of discourses. Rather humans, non-humans, and discourses become essential parts of ageing processes. Such a material framing enables us new insights into forms of age and ageing and thus offers an opportunity for scholars to engage critically with materialities of age and ageing. This eBook explores theoretical, methodological, and empirical concepts of such a 'Material Gerontology'.