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The Need for Theory
Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology
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eBook - ePub
The Need for Theory
Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology
About this book
The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world. Using their keen insights into substantive issues, the contributors examine personal and structural changes affecting individuals over the life course. Extolling the need for theory is not enough; the contributors focus their insights on a panoply of substantive issues, linking the personal with the political and with the structural parameters that shape the process of aging, no matter where it occurs.
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Index
Acceleration, societal, 50-51
Accompanying and praxeology of social constructionist agenda, 60
Achenbaum, W. A., 21,26
Acker, Joan, 227
Activity theory, 202, 221, 223-224
Actor and context, self/identity and interplay of, 65, 77
See also Identity and structured inequalities, theory gap between experienced
Adaptation processes, 127
Affectual solidarity and mtergenerational solidarity paradigm, 188
Affinity and intergenerational family relations, 190
“After the Fall: New Directions in Critical Culture Theory,” 15-16
Ageing Enterprise, The, 2
Ageism, 21, 145, 175, 206
See also Age relations, theorizing
Agency and self/identity, 64, 65
Age relations, theorizing
defining terms, 203
dependence, 214-215
exploring age relations: centering on the old, 209
fluid and group membership shifts over time, age is, 207
gender relations/identity, 211-215
identifying age groups, 208
location, old age as a social, 209-211
[Age relations, theorizing]
middle-age experiences, limited value of theories based on, 199-200
oppression, a relation of privilege and, 204-206
overview, 9, 199-200
power relation in its own right, old age as a, 203-204
power relations, are age relations the same as other, 205-207
power relations, intersecting, 211-212
sexuality and gender, 212-213
successful aging, 200-203
summary/conclusions, 215-216
Age stratification and the aging society paradigm, 223
Aging and Society Paradigm (Riley), 223
Aging Enterprise (Estes), 234
Aging paradox
meaning construction, 128-130, 134-136
methodological implications, 139
overview, 9, 127-128
physical self, 131-132
positive aspects of aging, 129-130
practice, implications for, 139-140
process of meaning construction, 134-136
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION The Need for Theory in Gerontology
- SECTION ONE Theorizing Gerontology
- SECTION TWO Theorizing Micro Relations
- SECTION THREE Theorizing Macro Relations
- CONCLUSION Where is Theory Headed?
- Contributors
- Index