Shaping Ageing Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

Info autore

Adriana Teodorescu is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, and the co-editor of Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.
Dan Chiribucă is Professor of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.

Riassunto

Thematically arranged, this interdisciplinary volume brings together the latest research from around the world to examine the manifold, often contradictory aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation and representation of ageing.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Adriana Teodorescu (Editore), Dan Chiribucă (Editore), Teodorescu Adriana (Editore)
• Autori: Adriana (Babes-Bolyai University Teodorescu
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 25.09.2023
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780367495961
• ISBN: 978-0-367-49596-1
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Serie: Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life
• Categorie: Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Age groups: the elderly, Age groups: the elderly / old age, qualitative ageing studies, gerontological research, social policy analysis, cross-cultural ageing, constructivist perspectives on old age, identity in later life, elderly care systems