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Modernisation and ageing theory revisited
— current explanations of recent developing world and historical Western shifts in material family support for older people | | Author(s) | Isabella Aboderin |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 24, part 1, January 2004 |
| Pages | pp 29-50 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Family care ; Social change ; Theory ; Developing countries. |
| Annotation | Modernisation and ageing theory have provided the main platform for the debate on changes in family support for older people in both the industrialised and the developing world. Although its well-known proposition of an 'abandonment' of older people in individualistic society has received much attention and been solidly related, the modernisation model continues to be the principal and most common framework for explaining the decline in familial material support for older people - both historically in the West, or now in developing countries. The main rival explanation is provided by materialist accounts. This paper critically examines the content and basis of both explanatory models. For each, it exposes fundamental conceptual and epistemological limitations that render neither able to provide a solid understanding of the nature and causes of decline in support. Building on this analysis, the paper proposes a new approach in order to develop a fuller conceptual and empirical understanding. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040205203 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: TMH: 4D: 7B |
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