Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780813916620 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str.

Stephen Katz

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In Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and the Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the -gerontological web.-Katz explores how political and social sciences have differentiated the elderly as a special kind of population characterized in negative terms, and he examines the literature of the discipline and shows how gerontology as built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies, and -schools of thought.-