Materialities Of Age And Ageing Concepts Of A Material Gerontology

Author : Grit Höppner,Monika Urban
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889458639

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Materialities of Age and Ageing: Concepts of a Material Gerontology by Grit Höppner,Monika Urban Pdf

In gerontological research the understanding of age and ageing changed in the last decade. Biologic determined explanations no longer prevail in this research field. Instead, ideas of social constructivism are frequently used. These ideas define the state of age and the process of ageing as social constructions, steeping ageing in social and cultural assumptions, ascriptions, and expectations. From a social constructivist perspective, age and ageing are not (just) identified as dependency, deficit, and need for care – as it was foremost accelerated from a biological perspective – but with the life course and thus with individual lifestyles, experiences, attitudes and practices, as well as institutional and economic structures. A prominent social constructivist concept is “doing age.” Similar to “doing gender” the concept of “doing age” assumes age as taking place in the form of a social praxis within everyday life interactions between people and thus in performances, embedded in discourses, through which social hierarchies and ideals proceed. Despite the paradigm shift that social constructivist concepts enable in gerontological thinking, they reveal their blind spot when it comes to the materiality of ageing and thus to fleshy-sensual experiences, human and non-human ontologies and agencies. Addressing these materialities of ageing brings up its own critique on definitions of ageing bodies and material environments. This framing does not presume that age and ageing are solely products of human-to-human interactions or those of formative environments or of discourses. Rather humans, non-humans, and discourses become essential parts of ageing processes. Such a material framing enables us new insights into forms of age and ageing and thus offers an opportunity for scholars to engage critically with materialities of age and ageing. This eBook explores theoretical, methodological, and empirical concepts of such a 'Material Gerontology'.

Author : Katz, Stephen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335962

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Ageing in Everyday Life by Katz, Stephen Pdf

Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society. Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, public and private spaces, older drivers, media representations, dementia care, health-tracking, dress and sexuality. This focus on micro-sociological conditions allows us to rethink key questions which have shaped debates in the social aspects of ageing. International contributions, including from the UK, USA, Sweden and Canada, provide a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures.

Author : Juliane Jarke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030528737

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Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society by Juliane Jarke Pdf

This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons is that many digital public services (or e-services) do not respond well to the life worlds, use contexts and use practices of its target audiences. This book argues that when older adults are involved in the process of identifying, conceptualising, and designing digital public services, these services become more relevant and meaningful. The book describes and compares three co-creation projects that were conducted in two European cities, Bremen and Zaragoza, as part of a larger EU-funded innovation project. The first part of the book traces the origins of co-creation to three distinct domains, in which co-creation has become an equally important approach with different understandings of what it is and entails: (1) the co-production of public services, (2) the co-design of information systems and (3) the civic use of open data. The second part of the book analyses how decisions about a co-creation project’s governance structure, its scope of action, its choice of methods, its alignment with strategic policies and its embedding in existing public information infrastructures impact on the process and its results. The final part of the book identifies key challenges to co-creation and provides a more general assessment of what co-creation may achieve, where the most promising areas of application may be and where it probably does not match with the contingent requirements of digital public services. Contributing to current discourses on digital citizenship in ageing societies and user-centric design, this book is useful for researchers and practitioners interested in co-creation, public sector innovation, open government, ageing and digital technologies, citizen engagement and civic participation in socio-technical innovation.

Author : Judith E Phillips,Kristine J Ajrouch,Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412922722

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Key Concepts in Social Gerontology by Judith E Phillips,Kristine J Ajrouch,Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby Pdf

Victor Marshall, Dept. of Sociology and Institute on Aging, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill --

Author : Carroll L. Estes,Nicholas B. DiCarlo
Publisher : Aging and Society
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Gerontology
ISBN : 1629584509

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Aging A-Z by Carroll L. Estes,Nicholas B. DiCarlo Pdf

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today's intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world's population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book's entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene-environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations. h (social, behavioral, policy, and gene-environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.

Author : Bryan S. R. Green
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202366319

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Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age by Bryan S. R. Green Pdf

Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of study and practice. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age applies the methods of discourse analysis and textual analysis to texts and documents in this newly evolved and eclectic fi eld. Green explores and identifies the literary methods and discursive regularities through which aging and the aged have been made into objects of study and treatment, and which together form a mode of knowledge production that will infl uence future texts in the field. Because such formats of representation limit rational diagnoses of problems and rational courses of ameliorative action, policy implications in the fi eld of gerontology are a major interest of this study. Another interest is methodological. Within the broader constructionist approach to social reality, Green takes the position of "constitutive realism": the notion that social reality is linguistically constructed, primarily in speech and writing. The book's two aims are to describe analytically the fi eld of gerontology. The field is important both for its growing academic presence and for its practical eff ects on discourse and policy concerning old age. It also hopes to help develop possibilities of inquiry associated with the linguistic, literary, and rhetorical turns of social science in recent years. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age is a substantive investigation, at considerable theoretical depth, of gerontology itself, as well as a methodological treatise with broader implications for social science as it focuses upon the discourse of various professional fi elds. Bryan S. Green is professor emeritus of sociology at York University. He is the author of Knowing the Poor: A Case-Study in Textual Reality Construction and Literary Methods and Sociological Theory. His research interests include the application of textual and discourse analysis to gerontology and the literary construction of policy reports. Roberta R. Greene is the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare at the University of Texas at Austin. Robert G. Blundo is professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington.

Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0534146708

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Social Forces and Aging by Robert C. Atchley Pdf

Long considered a classic in its field, this thoroughly updated sixth edition presents new material on gerontology. Atchley examines ageing from both an individual and societal perspective and emphasizes ageing as a social process.

Author : Julia Twigg,Wendy Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136221033

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Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology by Julia Twigg,Wendy Martin Pdf

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities, and deploying diverse methodologies – visual, literary, spatial – and theoretical perspectives Cultural Gerontology has brought new aspects of later life into view. This major new publication draws together these currents including: Theory and Methods; Embodiment; Identities and Social Relationships; Consumption and Leisure; and Time and Space. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.

Author : Anna-Lisa Müller,W. Reichmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137461131

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Architecture, Materiality and Society by Anna-Lisa Müller,W. Reichmann Pdf

This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contributions examine the question of whether architecture and thus materiality as a whole has agency. The book also proposes a theoretical and methodological approach on how to research architecture's agency.

Author : John Bond
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : UVA:X004832162

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Ageing in Society by John Bond Pdf

This third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of ageing, exploring the key theories, concepts and methods which behavioural and social sciences contribute to the subject.

Author : Mark William Skinner,Gavin J. Andrews,Malcolm P. Cutchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Aging
ISBN : 1138241156

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Geographical Gerontology by Mark William Skinner,Gavin J. Andrews,Malcolm P. Cutchin Pdf

This book advances the field of 'geographical gerontology' - a burgeoning body of interdisciplinary scholarship encompassing the application of geographical concepts and approaches to the study of ageing, old age and older populations.

Author : Jason L. Powell,Tony Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 1607411911

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Aging Identity by Jason L. Powell,Tony Gilbert Pdf

Viewing ageing and identity through the critical lens of both contemporary gerontology theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine a vast range of issues: from disability to clothing; from ageing, health and education to social philosophies and meanings of ageing; and from auto-ethnographic methodologies to rethinking post-modern theories of ageing. These rich examples demonstrate that traditional biomedical models of ageing can no longer give universal and totalising views of ageing. The key issue of the book is to point to the varied social and cultural representations and experiences of ageing and identity formation. The book celebrates the diversity of older people, challenging the bio-medical equation of 'ageing as decline' with exciting and alternative theorisations from post-modern gerontology. Further, a post-modern approach helps to debunk and shatter fixed and limited perceptions of ageing by advocating an alternative expression of ageing; the conceptual and theoretical focus on ageing identity illuminates the self is fluid, changeable and dynamic. This book engages social theory with aging identity by analysing the challenges and opportunities afforded to older people in the 'contemporary age of ageing'.

Author : Sheila M. Peace,Freya E. Dittmann-Kohli,Gerben Westerhof
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aging
ISBN : LCCN:2006929608

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Ageing in Society by Sheila M. Peace,Freya E. Dittmann-Kohli,Gerben Westerhof Pdf

Author : Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350204348

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film by Sarah Falcus,Heike Hartung,Raquel Medina Pdf

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. In the early 21st century, the literary study of age and ageing in its cultural context has 'come of age': it has come to supplement and challenge a public discourse on ageing seen mainly as a political and demographic 'problem' in many countries of the world. Following a tripartite structure, it looks first at literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, incorporating both narrative genres as well as poetry, drama and imagery. The second section includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Age(ing) Studies with examples from film and literature. The third section brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing. Containing original contributions by pioneers in the field as well as new scholars from across the globe, it brings together current scholarship on ageing in literary and film studies, and offers new directions and perspectives.

Author : Carroll L. Estes,with Nicholas B. DiCarlo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429619588

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Aging A-Z by Carroll L. Estes,with Nicholas B. DiCarlo Pdf

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.