Age studies : a sociological examination of how we age and are aged through the life course / Susan Pickard.

By:

Pickard, Susan [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Sage, 2016Description: ix, 298 pages 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781446287378

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HQ1061

Contents:

Chapter 1: Age Studies: What is it and why do we need it? -- Chapter Two: Class stratification and age -- Chapter Three: Gender Studies as a Paradigm for Age Studies -- Chapter Four: Constructing and deconstructing ages and stages of the life course -- Chapter Five: Identity and age -- Chapter Six: Age and Embodiment -- Chapter Seven: Sexuality through the life course -- Chapter Eight: Health, illness and normality through the life course -- Chapter Nine: Representing Ages and Stages -- Chapter Ten: Ages and Generations in interaction -- Chapter Eleven: Telling our own stories: Developing age consciousness and authentic age identities -- Chapter Twelve: Concluding Thoughts -- References.

Summary: Age Studies takes an invigorating approach to the study of age and ageing in contemporary society. Encompassing ageing throughout the life course, taking in childhood, adolescence, mid-life and older age, and situated explicitly within a sociological disciplinary framework. -- provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Age Studies takes an invigorating approach to the study of age and ageing in contemporary society. Encompassing ageing throughout the life course, taking in childhood, adolescence, mid-life and older age, and situated explicitly within a sociological disciplinary framework. -- provided by publisher.

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