The Need for Theory

Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology

Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, Ariela Lowenstein

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781351863278
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Medicina
• Sous-sujet: Infermieristica gerontologica

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.

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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