Cultures of Ageing Self, Citizen and the Body
Auteurs : Gilleard Chris, Higgs Paul
For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.
1. Introduction
2. From Political Economy to the culture of personal identity
3. Retirement, identity and consumer society
4. Identity, self-care and staying young
5. The old person as citizen
6. Senior citizenship and contemporary social policy
7. Ageing and its embodiment
8. Bio-ageing and the reproduction of the social
9. Ageing, Alzheimer's and the uncivilised body
10 The inevitablity of the cultural turn in ageing studies
- Each chapter of the book examines a different aspect of ageing as a theme representative of broader social issues concerning self and identity, citizenship and the body.
- Discusses and illustrates changing nature of social policy towards older people.
- Examines changes in retirement and ageing allowing reader to see changing nature of ageing.
- Focuses on the importance of identity in later life allowing the reader to see ageing as resistance.
- Looks at the changes in understanding of the biology of ageing to show the impact of society on ageing.
- Discusses Alzheimer's disease showing the social construction of Alzheimer's.
- Examines the importance of cultural aspects in ageing studies, showing the significance of social theory to ageing.
- Draws on European
Date de parution : 12-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 09-2000
Ouvrage de 232 p.
Thème de Cultures of Ageing :
Mots-clés :
social; gerontology; structured; dependency; theory; longterm; care; insurance; post-working; life; ADL Impairment; Long Term Care Insurance; Pop Stars; Contemporary Society; Good Life; Over-65 Population; Average Income; Nursing Home Entry; National Long Term Care Survey; Post-working Life; Structured Dependency Theory; Anti-ageing Medicine; Late Life Mortality; Uncivilized Body; Alzheimer’s Disease; Class Differentials; State Retirement Pension; ADL; Higher Social Participation; Private Long Term Care Insurance; Cosmetic Surgery; Homecare Services; Public Long Term Care Insurance; Social Security Contributory Scheme; Ageing Body