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Linking the two ends of life
— what gerontology can learn from childhood studies | | Author(s) | Richard A Settersten |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp S173-S180 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Children ; Sociology, Social Science ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | This paper extends provocative ideas from the emerging interdisciplinary field of childhood studies to the field of gerontology. These ideas constitute a framework for building new kinds of theories and research on older people and old age that are gathered around rights and responsibilities of and for older people. The author touches on the gerontology literature that can be applied to childhood studies and vice versa, by considering: the distinction between the older person, old people, old age, and ageing; the tension between commonness and differences between different parts of old age; older people as social actors and participants, and as beings and becomings; the social spaces of old age; rights and responsibilities of and for older people; and old age and the interdependence of generations. Gerontology will need to strengthen its treatment of sociocultural phenomena, prompt more genuine interdisciplinary scholarship, and advocate a wider range of research methods and data. A "new social studies of older people and old age", nurtured around these ideas, will also raise the visibility of older people and old age in science, public policy and social life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121219 A |
| Classmark | BG: SBC: S: 64A |
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