Old Age
Recent decades have seen a fundamental change in the age structure of many western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to ex...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London ; New York
Routledge
2003
Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Vydání: | 1 |
| Edice: | Key Ideas |
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| ISBN: | 9780415268233, 0415268222, 0415268230, 9780415268226, 9036619106, 9789036619103 |
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- Old age and death -- Conclusion: old age and ageism -- Liberation of old age -- Notes -- Index
- Intro -- OLD AGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Key questions -- 1 The experience of old age -- The social construction of old age -- Social regulation of age in Britain -- The importance of pensions in establishing the modern category 'old age' -- Social cues to old age -- A cross-cultural comparison of the construction of old age -- Standard of living and quality of life in old age -- Women and widows -- Expectations of old age -- 2 The succession of generations -- Social groups based on age -- What do we mean by generation? -- Generation, community and inequality -- The changing experience of different historical cohorts -- The interaction of generational expectations -- Generations and social change -- The social solidarity of generations -- 3 Global crises and old age -- What is globalisation, how might it impact on old age? -- Older people and poverty -- Old age: population and environmental crises -- Is there a global demographic crisis? -- Conclusion: older people in an unequal world -- 4 Old age, equity and intergenerational conflict? -- The demographic crisis and national pension schemes -- The issue is not demographic - the manufacture of a crisis -- Globalisation and the nation state, implications for welfare -- Globalisation and the growth of pensions as a force in world financial markets -- Problems with the economic arguments for pension fund capitalism -- Old age and the power of capital -- 5 Consumerism, identity and old age -- Old age and identity -- Diversity in old age -- Identity and life history -- Consumption and identity -- Choice, identity and old age -- 6 Old age, sickness, death and immortality -- Knowledge of ageing and death -- Ageing as the subject of biological science -- The medicalisation of old age -- Avoiding old age -- Individualism and sociology of body