Ageing, insight and wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse (Ageing and the Lifecourse) - Hardcover

Edmondson, Ricca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847425933 ISBN 13: 9781847425935

Publisher: Policy Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating meaning in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older people and for relationships between generations. The book offers a language for discussing major types of lifecourse meaning, not least those concerning ethical and temporal aspects of the ways people interpret their lifecourses, the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer. It will appeal to students of gerontology, sociological methodology, humanistic sociology, philosophy, psychology, and health promotion and medicine.

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About the Author

Ricca Edmondson is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. After studying philosophy at the University of Lancaster and writing her D.Phil. at Oxford on reasoning in the social sciences, she carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She then joined the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, specialising in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to life-course meaning and wisdom, and their history, landscapes and social settings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847425933
• ISBN 13: 9781847425935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224