Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology

ISBN-13: 9781447300908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 216 str.

Jan Baars

Opis

"Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure"advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanist perspectives on issues of existential meaning, providing indispensable reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and practitioners in gerontology and humanism studies."

Spis treści

Introduction ~ Jan Baars and Chris Phillipson; Connecting meaning with social structure: Theoretical foundations ~ Jan Baars and Chris Philipson; My own life. Ethics, ageing and lifestyle ~Joseph Dohmen; Rethinking agency in late life: structural and interpretive approaches ~ Amanda Grenier and Chris Phillipson; Dementia: Beyond structures of medicalization and cultural neglect ~ Margreet Th.Bruens; Self-realization and ageing: a spiritual perspective ~ Hanne Laceulle; Social ability or social frailty? The balance between autonomy and connectedness in the lives of older people ~ Anja Machielse and Roelof Hortulanus; Critical perspectives on social work with older people ~ Mo Ray; Community-based participatory action research: opportunities and challenges for critical gerontology ~ Friederike Ziegler and Thomas Scharf; Commentary: Contingent Ageing, Naturalization and Some Rays of Intellectual Hope ~ Dale Dannefer and Jielu Lin.