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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... identity choices avail- able to older people themselves . Identity , gerontology and modernity Contemporary debate on identity hinges on whether society has undergone a profound change , from a state of modernity to something else ...
... identity choices avail- able to older people themselves . Identity , gerontology and modernity Contemporary debate on identity hinges on whether society has undergone a profound change , from a state of modernity to something else ...
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... identity , with scant regard for actual personal and historical events . Narrative resolves the ambiguity left by approaches such as continuity theory ... IDENTITY 41 Concluding comments: what hope for a critical gerontology identity?
... identity , with scant regard for actual personal and historical events . Narrative resolves the ambiguity left by approaches such as continuity theory ... IDENTITY 41 Concluding comments: what hope for a critical gerontology identity?
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... identity in one context and postmodern ones in another . Mod- ernity to postmodernity can now themselves be seen as different possible tra- jectories for identity in contemporary society and may inhabit different institutions and ...
... identity in one context and postmodern ones in another . Mod- ernity to postmodernity can now themselves be seen as different possible tra- jectories for identity in contemporary society and may inhabit different institutions and ...
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Social theory and ageing | 8 |
beyond disengagement theory | 19 |
Key Points | 25 |
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