Ageing, insight and wisdom

This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes and the types of wisdom they can offer.

About the author

Ricca Edmondson is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. After studying philosophy at the University of Lancaster and writing her D.Phil. at Oxford on reasoning in the social sciences, she carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She then joined the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, specialising in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to life-course meaning and wisdom, and their history, landscapes and social settings.

Summary

This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes and the types of wisdom they can offer.

Product details

• Authors: Ricca Edmondson, Ricca (Department of Political Science and Sociology/Irish centre for Social Gerontology Edmondson
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2015
• EAN: 9781847425935
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-593-5
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series; Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories