Ageing, the Body and Social Change - Running in Later Life

Zusatztext 'I urge anyone interested in the body! ageing! sport or social policy to read this book. It is insightful! clearly written and its relevance extends beyond running.' - Sarah Nettleton! Ageing and Society Informationen zum Autor DR EMMANUELLE TULLE is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Klappentext The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life, specifically Master athletics, including barriers, opportunities and physiological dimensions. Zusammenfassung The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life! specifically Master athletics! including barriers! opportunities and physiological dimensions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Embodying Ageing Debates in the Sociology of the Body Social Fields as Spaces of Disruption Capturing Ageing Embodiment Disrupted Biographies Managing Ageing Mapping an Embodied Sociology of Ageing Conclusion Index

Table des matières

Introduction Embodying Ageing Debates in the Sociology of the Body Social Fields as Spaces of Disruption Capturing Ageing Embodiment Disrupted Biographies Managing Ageing Mapping an Embodied Sociology of Ageing Conclusion Index

Commentaire

'I urge anyone interested in the body, ageing, sport or social policy to read this book. It is insightful, clearly written and its relevance extends beyond running.' - Sarah Nettleton, Ageing and Society

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: E Tulle, E. Tulle, Emmanuelle Tulle
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 10.07.2008
• EAN: 9780230517592
• ISBN: 978-0-230-51759-2
• Pages: 195
• Catégories: Livres pour enfants et adolescents > Littérature spécialisée (texte ou images) > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres; B, aging, Sociology, Family, Anthropology, Social groups, adolescence, Social Change, childhood, Sociology: sport & leisure, Economic development, Ageing, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Age groups: the elderly, Age groups: adults, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Development Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Development and Social Change, Age groups & generations, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, aging;biography;participation;social change;sociology;Sport