Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings (Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367495961 ISBN 13: 9780367495961

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

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About the Author

Adriana Teodorescu is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, and the co-editor of Death in Contemporary Popular Culture.

Dan Chiribucă is Professor of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367495961
• ISBN 13: 9780367495961
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Teodorescu Adriana, Chiribuca Dan