The new sociology of aging

In: Social Perspectives in the 21st Century

In: Social Perspectives in the 21st Century Ser.

In: ProQuest Ebook Central

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: The New Sociology of Aging -- The Gaze of Functionalist Gerontology -- Disengagement Theory -- Activity Theory -- Political Economy of Old Age and the Politics of Distribution -- Feminist Interpretations of Aging and Gender -- Gender and Marginality in Old Age -- Race and Aging -- Sexuality and Aging -- Concluding Comments to Introduction -- The Sociology of Risky Aging -- Risk, Work and Pensions: A Recalibration -- Population Ageing and Risk -- Extending Working Lives -- Conclusion: Ageing, Welfare and Risk - Lessons for Critical Understanding -- Postmodern Sociology and Aging -- The Development of Postmodern Social Theory -- Theorizing the Aging Body -- Popular Culture and the Aging Body -- The Gendered Aging Body -- Biotechnology and the Body: Reinventing Aging? -- Conclusion -- Towards A Social Methodology in Sociological Gerontology -- Neoliberalism, Aging, and the Family -- Social Democracy, Aging, and the Family -- "Grand-Parenting" Policy -- Sociology of Aging and Personalisation -- Introduction -- The Rise of Personalisation and Care -- Surveillance, Personalisation and Care -- The Technologies of Care Management to facilitate Personalisation? -- The Panoptic Culture -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Demographics, Poverty and Ageism -- Demographics -- Poverty -- Ageism -- The Analytical Framework of Governmentality -- Policy Constructs -- Integrating Health and Social Services: Policy and Older People -- References -- About the Author -- Index -- Blank Page.

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The new sociology of aging

In: Social perspectives in the 21st century

Powell, Jason L.

Powell, Jason L.

Abstract

"This book introduces the 'new sociology of aging' through the analytical lens of sociological themes and new sociological theories. In traditional gerontology, much emphasis is put on aging as decline and decline as aging. Sociology came late to assessing aging with the introduction of functionalism, Marxist/critical gerontology, and feminist tools of analysis. This book moves sociology on by exploring the sociology of 'risky aging' and the precarity of aging identity through managing private pensions. It examines postmodern sociological thought, which provides the intellectual platform to diagnose why individuals have to manage their own risk affairs in welfare such as pensions and care. The book also introduces the importance of a new social methodology for sociological analysis of aging and family life including care relations. To compound this, the book then draws from the sociological conceptual tools of surveillance and governmentality to examine aging and instances of welfare that epitomises why a new sociology of aging is required in the US, Canada, EU, Africa and Australasia. Hence, it will appeal to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate students and researchers. It is envisaged the book will be provocative in examining the implications of rethinking social relations through an impetus for a new sociology of aging"--

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