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| Can there be a cultural sociology of ageing? | | Author(s) | Andrew Blaikie |
| Journal title | Education and Ageing, vol 14, no 2, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 127-140 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Sociology, Social Science. |
| Annotation | Despite the emergence of the Third Age and the attendant need to understand the lifestyles of the increasing numbers of people in retirement, sociologists of ageing persistently focus on conflict theories that are more concerned with intergenerational inequalities. Such macro-level analyses often disregard the complex dialectic between the social structure and individual agency. The meanings and experience of later life have already been analysed from a number of ethnographic angles, yet it remains the case that a cultural studies of ageing does not exist in the same way that the cultural studies tradition has informed debates surrounding youth culture (or, indeed, women's studies or research into race and ethnicity) since the 1970s. This article examines why this is so, and argues that, given the transitional social location of older people, their minority status, and the impact of the "grey market" within consumer culture, sociologists might exercise more imagination in how they interpret cultures of ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000229230 A |
| Classmark | BG: S |
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