Cultural Gerontology
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Acculturating Age Approaches To Cultural Gerontology
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Author : Brian J. Worsfold
language : en
Publisher: Universitat de Lleida
Release Date : 2011
Acculturating Age Approaches To Cultural Gerontology written by Brian J. Worsfold and has been published by Universitat de Lleida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Acculturating refers to the interchange of patterns of behaviour, perceptions and ideas between groups of individuals who have different cultural backgrounds. This book, which is the result of collaboration between specialists from different disciplines from around the world, allows the comparison of systems of dependency, mediation skills, empathy and social understanding and cultural attitudes towards people who experience the stages of aging.
Cultural Gerontology
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Author : Lars Andersson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-11-30
Cultural Gerontology written by Lars Andersson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-30 with Social Science categories.
The concept of culture has gained considerable attention within the humanities and social sciences in general, and this is certainly true in the field of gerontology. The new perspectives thus gained widen the scope of gerontology. In this study, chapter authors examine the growth of gerontology as a discipline, the phenomenon of ageism as a socio-cultural concept, identity politics in which older persons are perceived as belonging to a subculture, and images of the older body in cultural perspective. The manner in which gerontology emerged as a discipline was embedded in culturally defined views of aging that had consequences for how it was seen to vary between cultures. One consequence was a perception of ageism as a cultural construction. Since the 1980s, much of the politics of older people is a form of identity politics in which groups are mobilized to further their interests. Questions of cultural meanings ascribed to the gendered aging body is a central question for ageism, social identity, and self-image. These questions become especially relevant in confrontations with bodily decline and negotiations of intimacy in institutions for older people.
Routledge Handbook Of Cultural Gerontology
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Author : Julia Twigg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-12
Routledge Handbook Of Cultural Gerontology written by Julia Twigg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with Social Science categories.
Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities, and deploying diverse methodologies – visual, literary, spatial – and theoretical perspectives Cultural Gerontology has brought new aspects of later life into view. This major new publication draws together these currents including: Theory and Methods; Embodiment; Identities and Social Relationships; Consumption and Leisure; and Time and Space. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.
Cultural Gerontology
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Author : Lars Andersson
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2002-11-30
Cultural Gerontology written by Lars Andersson and has been published by Greenwood Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-30 with Social Science categories.
Many disparate academic, political, and social issues fall under the umbrella of "cultural gerontology," and this volume brings them together and challenges mainstream gerontology.
The Cultural Context Of Aging
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Author : Jay Sokolovsky
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1997
The Cultural Context Of Aging written by Jay Sokolovsky and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
This volume uses the concept of culture to explore the parameters of aging and being old in a worldwide context, thus providing a true cross-cultural and qualitative approach to social gerontology. Containing both specific case studies and broader analytical articles, this revised and expanded second edition focuses on the multitude of cultural solutions societies have available for dealing with the challenges, problems, and opportunities of growing old. Composed almost exclusively of specially commissioned articles, the text is organized around six topical areas which cover the major concerns of cross-cultural social gerontology. Each section is preceded by an introduction providing a framework for the chapters and highlighting key related issues. Also included are state-of-the-art resource guides including Internet sites, special student resources, data sets, and annotated bibliographies of related readings. The authors come from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gerontology, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and nursing. Through explorations of the experiences of real people, the contributors illuminate how elders actually live in such places as U.S. urban ethnic enclaves, rural Kenya, a South Seas island, urban China, or a New York City women's shelter. Dealing directly with key practical issues relevant to those seeking to pursue a career in the aging field, this volume covers: policy implications of demographic aging; culture and successful aging; culture and caregiving; gender and aging; grandparenthood and the crisis in urban families; informal social support; homelessness and aging; nursing homes and pet therapy; assisted suicide and death hastening behavior; the aging woman and widowhood; rural aging; self-help groups; and the cultural response to Alzheimer's disease. This essential text allows students to understand fully how culture can dictate what may appear to be natural responses to elders and aging.
Cultural Aging
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Author : Stephen Katz
language : en
Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Release Date : 2005-07
Cultural Aging written by Stephen Katz and has been published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07 with Health & Fitness categories.
"With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging." - W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston
Other Cultures Elder Years
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Author : Lowell Don Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Other Cultures Elder Years written by Lowell Don Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Social Science categories.
The textbook on the anthropology of aging, but also the most comprehensive, comparative study available on worldwide patterns of aging. `Provides an excellent summary of secondary sources, avoiding extensive review of primary research, complicated theory, and methodological issues
Cross Cultural And Cross Disciplinary Perspectives In Social Gerontology
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Author : Tannistha Samanta
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-02
Cross Cultural And Cross Disciplinary Perspectives In Social Gerontology written by Tannistha Samanta and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Family & Relationships categories.
This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the “problems” associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap in the gerontological scholarship of the global south that is predominantly descriptive and empirical. Based on original research, this volume examines in particular the sociological question of inequality and its intersection with age, gender, health, family and social relations. In the process, the studies herein highlight the unique historical, institutional and social systems that govern the subjective experience of aging in diverse contexts globally. Specifically, societies in transition including India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan, China, Israel and in Europe are studied while connecting the micro-social experience of aging (loneliness, wellbeing, discrimination, relationships and resilience) with larger temporal and political contexts. This exercise generates intellectual capital that reformulates links between aging research and policy in innovative ways. Overall, the volume echoes the global scientific commitment to understand the socio-cultural process of aging in transitional societies and utilizes rich opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas, disciplines and methods to advance the gerontological promise of critical inquiry, training and practice.
Cultural Perspectives On Aging
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Author : Andrea Hülsen-Esch
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Cultural Perspectives On Aging written by Andrea Hülsen-Esch and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of ‘age’ and ‘ageing’ have been increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that are determined by parameters that or not biological or sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly people.
Cultures Of Ageing
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Author : Chris Gilleard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-21
Cultures Of Ageing written by Chris Gilleard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-21 with Psychology categories.
For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.