Social Theory, Social Policy and Ageing: A Critical IntroductionOpen University Press, 2003 - 191 páginas 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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... becomes unpredictable and identities fragmented . However , if there is too little , creativity and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances become threatened . Concern with social inequality , the ageing body and ageist attitudes ...
... becomes unpredictable and identities fragmented . However , if there is too little , creativity and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances become threatened . Concern with social inequality , the ageing body and ageist attitudes ...
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... become a project , a trajectory that guides one's passage through time and space . Under such conditions it is impossible , he concludes , to distinguish between body and self - identity . One's body even becomes a record of personal ...
... become a project , a trajectory that guides one's passage through time and space . Under such conditions it is impossible , he concludes , to distinguish between body and self - identity . One's body even becomes a record of personal ...
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... become part of the hegemonic arsenal of biomedicine . A further argument , elaborated below , is more Foucauldian in its critique in so far as it examines how the medical gaze modifies the way in which old age and biomedicine are ...
... become part of the hegemonic arsenal of biomedicine . A further argument , elaborated below , is more Foucauldian in its critique in so far as it examines how the medical gaze modifies the way in which old age and biomedicine are ...
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Social theory and ageing | 8 |
beyond disengagement theory | 19 |
Key Points | 25 |
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