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Aging, globalization and inequality
— the new critical gerontology | | Author(s) | Jan Baars, Dale Dannefer, Chris Phillipson, Alan Walker |
| Publisher | Baywood, Amityville, NY, 2006 |
| Pages | 291 pp (Society and aging series) |
| Source | Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 26 Austin Avenue, PO Box 337, Amityville, NY 11701, USA. E-mail: baywood@baywood.com Web site: http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Sociology, Social Science ; Economics ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Contributors from Europe and North America look at key issues in the development of critical gerontology. There is a shared belief that mainstream social gerontology has paid insufficient attention to ways in which age and ageing are being transformed by processes of globalisation. This book is in three sections. Section 1 - on the dimensions of critical gerontology - looks variously at the impacts of globalisation, political economy and feminist perspectives, also aspects of modernism. Section 2 is on critical dimensions of medicalisation: ageing and health as cultural products. Chapters consider in turn factors contributing to the "social construction" of later life: "functional ageing" and "functional health"; anti-ageing and empowering older people; and psychiatry and its treatment of dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Contributors to Section 3 - on local, national and global dynamics of age and inequality - explore aspects of cumulative advantage or disadvantage at local, national nd global levels, using qualitative of quantitative methods to do so. A concluding chapter on world population issues gives a broad overview of demographic change. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060525001 B |
| Classmark | BG: S: W: TM2 |
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