Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body
Author:   Chris Gilleard ,  Paul Higgs
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138157811


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   23 December 2016
Format:   Hardback
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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 the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.

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Author:   Chris Gilleard ,  Paul Higgs
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138157811


ISBN 10:   1138157813
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   23 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction 2. From Political Economy to the culture of personal identity 3. Retirement, identity and consumer society 4. Identity, self-care and staying young 5. The old person as citizen 6. Senior citizenship and contemporary social policy 7. Ageing and its embodiment 8. Bio-ageing and the reproduction of the social 9. Ageing, Alzheimer's and the uncivilised body 10 The inevitablity of the cultural turn in ageing studies

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