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Contexts of Ageing: Class, Cohort and Community
ISBN: 9780745629506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) We live in ageing societies. Age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. A new affluence has spread across society and across the lifecourse. For many people looking forward to retirement, later life has changed for the better. But with this positive outcome for older people have come policy and social dilemmas for governments and individuals alike.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book analyses the social nature of later life in the context of the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society and the growth of individualism. The book argues that... We live in ageing societies. Age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. A new affluence has spread across society and across the lifecourse. ...
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91,42 |
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Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body
ISBN: 9780582356412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that...
For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-...
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299,28 |
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Ageing in a Consumer Society: From Passive to Active Consumption in Britain
ISBN: 9781861348838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Targeted as the 'grey consumer', people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older but have not stopped consuming.Based on extensive analysis over two years, this unique book examines the engagement of older people with consumer society in Britain since the 1960s. It charts the changes in the experience of later life in the UK over the last 50 years, the rise of the 'individualised consumer citizen' and what this means for health and social policies. The book will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and policy analysts....
Targeted as the 'grey consumer', people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older b...
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431,97 |
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Contexts of Ageing: Class, Cohort and Community
ISBN: 9780745629490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) We live in ageing societies. Age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. A new affluence has spread across society and across the lifecourse. For many people looking forward to retirement, later life has changed for the better. But with this positive outcome for older people have come policy and social dilemmas for governments and individuals alike.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book analyses the social nature of later life in the context of the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society and the growth of individualism. The book argues that... We live in ageing societies. Age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. A new affluence has spread across society and across the lifecourse. ...
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398,71 |
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Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Ageing Under the Union
ISBN: 9781137585400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland's population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908. It examines the changing demography of the country following the Famine and the impact this had on household and family structure. It explores the growing problem of late life poverty and the residualisation of the aged sick and poor in the workhouse. Despite slow improvements in many areas of life for the young and the working classes, the book argues that for the aged the...
Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland's population from the sta...
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220,86 |
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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
ISBN: 9781447319061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.
How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociologic...
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142,24 |
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Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
ISBN: 9781447319054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.
How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociologic...
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431,97 |
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Rethinking the Sociology of Ageing: Towards a Sociology of Later Life
ISBN: 9781802202113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this important new book, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard demonstrate how an effective sociology of later life is critical for understanding the ageing societies of the twenty-first century. Rethinking the Sociology of Ageing situates ageing firmly within the discipline of sociology. Adopting a global lens, the authors explore later life in relation to contemporary social theory as it relates to social institutions and the increasing role of forms of capital. Key topics covered include generation, households, lifestyle, ‘cosmopolitanisation’, health and risk. The book contends that the...
In this important new book, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard demonstrate how an effective sociology of later life is critical for understanding the agein...
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508,20 |
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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
ISBN: 9780857283290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment' argues that both ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have become fragmented. The book concentrates on the emergence of a 'new ageing' mediated in part through the processes of 'embodiment'. The first section provides the main theoretical context for the book, with the first chapter outlining the new 'sociology of the body' and the second outlining the emergence of new ageing and its 're-orientation' toward the body. The second section explores the relationship between new ageing and key aspects of... 'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment' argues that both ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have become fr... |
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355,74 |
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Rethinking Old Age: Theorising the Fourth Age
ISBN: 9781137383990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a 'fourth age' that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinct from traditional models of old age.
With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. I...
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711,48 |
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Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body
ISBN: 9781138157811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves...
For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-...
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844,88 |
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Social Divisions and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality
ISBN: 9781447338604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.
As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life.
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137,16 |
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Social Divisions and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality
ISBN: 9781447338598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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431,97 |
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Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
ISBN: 9781783083374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment' argues that both ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have become fragmented. The book concentrates on the emergence of a 'new ageing' mediated in part through the processes of 'embodiment'. The first section provides the main theoretical context for the book, with the first chapter outlining the new 'sociology of the body' and the second outlining the emergence of new ageing and its 're-orientation' toward the body. The second section explores the relationship between new ageing and key aspects of... 'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment' argues that both ageing as a unitary social process and agedness as a distinct social location have become fr... |
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127,05 |
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Digital Technologies and Generational Identity: Ict Usage Across the Life Course
ISBN: 9780367352455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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202,72 |
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Digital Technologies and Generational Identity: Ict Usage Across the Life Course
ISBN: 9781138225978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The short lifetime of digital technologies means that generational identities are difficult to establish around any particular technologies let alone around more far-reaching socio-technological 'revolutions'. Examining the consumption and use of digital technologies throughout the stages of human development, this book provides a valuable overview of ICT usage and generational difference. It focuses on the fields of home, family and consumption as key arenas where these processes are being enacted, sometimes strengthening old distinctions, sometimes creating new ones, always embodying an... The short lifetime of digital technologies means that generational identities are difficult to establish around any particular technologies let alo... |
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700,05 |
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Rethinking Old Age: Theorising the Fourth Age
ISBN: 9781137383983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a 'fourth age' that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinct from traditional models of old age.
With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. I...
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193,06 |
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