ISBN:
0865693277
,
9780865693272
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 232 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Non-Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Gerontology
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Ageism
;
Gerontology
;
Culture
Abstract:
The concept of culture has gained considerable attention within the humanities and social sciences in general, and this is certainly true in the field of gerontology. The new perspectives thus gained widen the scope of gerontology. In this study, chapter authors examine the growth of gerontology as a discipline, the phenomenon of ageism as a socio-cultural concept, identity politics in which older persons are perceived as belonging to a subculture, and images of the older body in cultural perspective.||The manner in which gerontology emerged as a discipline was embedded in culturally defined v
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; 1 Time to Pay Back? Is There Something for Psychology and Sociology in Gerontology?; 2 Utilization Patterns of Gerontology and the Dynamics of Knowledge Production; 3 On the Possibilities of Spirituality and Religious Humanism in Gerontology or Reflections of One Aging American Cultural Historian; 4 Ageism and Globalization: Citizenship and Social Rights in Transnational Settings; 5 Positioning Gerontology in an Ageist World; 6 Involvement in Social Organizations in Later Life: Variations by Gender and Class
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The Secret World of Subcultural Aging: What Unites and What Divides?8 Political Mobilization and Political Identity among Swedish Pensioners 1938-1945; 9 The Making of Older Immigrants in Sweden: Identification, Categorization, and Discrimination; 10 Women Aging and Body Talk; 11 Body Memories of Aging Women; 12 The Bodywork of Care; 13 Going Concerns and Their Bodies; 14 Dis-Membered Bodies-Re-Membered Selves: The Discourse of the Institutionalized Old; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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