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OverviewFor undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris Gilleard , Paul HiggsPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138157811ISBN 10: 1138157813 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 23 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. From Political Economy to the culture of personal identity 3. Retirement, identity and consumer society 4. Identity, self-care and staying young 5. The old person as citizen 6. Senior citizenship and contemporary social policy 7. Ageing and its embodiment 8. Bio-ageing and the reproduction of the social 9. Ageing, Alzheimer's and the uncivilised body 10 The inevitablity of the cultural turn in ageing studiesReviewsAuthor InformationChris Gilleard, Paul Higgs Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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