Social Welfare, Aging, and Social Theory, 2nd Edition
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ISBN-13:
9780739147788
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.01.2012
Seiten:
194
Autor:
Jason L Powell
Gewicht:
290 g
Format:
229x152x11 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Social Welfare, Aging and Social Theory explores how we can understand the changing relationship between social welfare and human aging. The book begins by reviewing how historical changes in society impacted on shaping emergence of scientific approaches to understand and problematize and bio-medicalize aging as akin to an illness and disease. The discussion moves to trace how particular social science theories were developed to reinforce negative perceptions of aging. The book also develops its own reflexive approach with in-depth examples of social welfare in national, international and global contexts in how aging is theorized in the postmodern world were alternative possibilities can be encountered.
Chapter 1: The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical ExegesisPart I. Modern Constructions of AgingChapter 2: From Galen to the Clinic: the Birth of BiomedicineChapter 3: Occidental Modernity, the Biomedical Gaze, and AgingChapter 4: Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological ApproachesPart II. Postmodern Deconstructions of AgingChapter 5: Postmodernism, Culture, and the Aging BodyChapter 6: The "Foucault Effect" and Aging: Relations of Power, Surveillance and GovernmentalityChapter 7: Aging in the "Risk Society"Chapter 8: Narrative and AgingChapter 9: Reconstructions of Aging: The Case of Global AgingChapter 10: Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging
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