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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... individual adaptation to ageing in the 1940s and 1950s to the strug- gle to develop neo - Marxist and related ... individual adjustment and its concern with the contribution of the social roles and norms of older individuals and ...
... individual adaptation to ageing in the 1940s and 1950s to the strug- gle to develop neo - Marxist and related ... individual adjustment and its concern with the contribution of the social roles and norms of older individuals and ...
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... individual and the social system . Disengagement theory posits that old age is a period in which the ageing individual and society both simultaneously engage in mutual separation ( e.g. retirement and disengagement from the workforce ) ...
... individual and the social system . Disengagement theory posits that old age is a period in which the ageing individual and society both simultaneously engage in mutual separation ( e.g. retirement and disengagement from the workforce ) ...
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... individual who is success- fully ageing maintains a mature integrated personality , which also is the basis of life satisfaction ( Neugarten et al . 1968 ; see also Chapter 3 ) . As such , decreases in activity or social interaction are ...
... individual who is success- fully ageing maintains a mature integrated personality , which also is the basis of life satisfaction ( Neugarten et al . 1968 ; see also Chapter 3 ) . As such , decreases in activity or social interaction are ...
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3 | 25 |
Desire for continuity | 31 |
Identity and the body | 37 |
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