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Intro -- LATER LIFE -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION DECONSTRUCTING 'LATER LIFE' -- GERONTOLOGY AS "SCIENCE" -- GERONTOLOGY AS SOCIAL THEORY -- MAPPING OUT THE TERRAIN: MODERN AND POSTMODERN THEORIES OF AGING -- Chapter 2: THEORIES OF AGING -- INTRODUCTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF AGING -- WHY SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LATER LIFE? -- THE GAZE OF FUNCTIONALIST PHILOSOPHY -- SOCIAL CLASS AND AGING: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OLD AGE -- AGING, MASCULINITY AND GENDER -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3: POST-STRUCTURALISM AND AGING -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS STRUCTURALISM? -- WHAT IS POST-STRUCTURALISM? -- ARCHAEOLOGIES AND GENEALOGIES OF AGING: POST-STRUCTURAL 'TOOLS FOR THINKING' -- THE LEGACY OF FOUCAULT'S POST-STRUCTURALISM AND AGING -- Chapter 4: NARRATIVE, AGING AND CITIZENSHIP -- INTRODUCTION -- THE STATE, THE INDIVIDUAL AND CITIZENSHIP -- SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEMATIZATION OF AGING -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5: THEORIZING TRUST AND AGING -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS TRUST? -- TRUST, AGING AND HEALTH -- GOVERNMENTALITY, TRUST AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6: CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL AGING -- GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL AGING -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Globalization and Inequality -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Global Poverty and Inequality -- Globalization and Reformulation of Economic Power -- Globalization and the Social Contract -- Corollaries of Public Policy: Making Sense of Social Welfare in global Arena -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Globalization and Global Aging -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Aging Populations in the Americas -- Aging in Asia -- The Populational Structure of Europe -- Populational Ageing in Africa -- The Social and Economic Challenges of Global Aging -- Chapter Four: Global Issues of Aging: The Case of China -- Abstract -- Introduction: From "Global Aging" to "Aging in China" -- Where Does the Ambivalence to Aging Come From? -- Bio-Medicine, Family Care, and Aging: Implications for China -- Declining to Decline-Active Aging? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This book explores the issues of crime, aging and criminal justice and their relationship to pensions, prisons, offenders, and victimization. The book is original in that it explores such key issues from the social domain of ""aging"". This book begins by exploring the relationship of crime, criminal justice and trust - an essential context that is situated that can provide key conceptual insights into the key issues in crime and criminal justice. The book then moves to assess the main issues of crime. These are associated with understanding pensions, on the one hand, and imprisonment for olde

This original book explores the nature and extent of global aging in contemporary society. It examines the impact of populational aging on different continents in the world. The book then moves its attention to exploring aging in China. In particular, it reviews the implications of urbanization for Chinese older people. It draws from social theory to illuminate a perceptual framework to examine rapid social change

This book examines the social analysis of emotion as well as its multifaceted interpretation by social theories emanating from the critical social science field. An overview of positivist, interpretative and postmodern approaches to glean a holistic understanding of emotion in everyday life is discussed. Furthermore, the concept of trust is introduced and is explored in relation to emotion. It is drawn from a range of examples, such as health and social care. The book aims to examine the possibilities and problems of trust relations in helping professions

This book, which draws from fieldwork research and evidence, is provided to suggest a sense of emotional anxiety among social workers and case managers working on the 'front-line' within local authority social service departments in England. This is taking place within British Prime Minister David Cameron's government agenda of ""personalization of care"". This new emphasis places the onus on the client rather than the gaze of the social worker. Yet, there are contradictions that lie at the heart of social work, social care and personal care. Theories have attempted to detangle these contradic

Intro -- SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: What is Ageing? -- Introduction -- The Bio-Medical Model: Biological and Psychological Aging - Science of Ageing? -- The Dark Side of Bio-Medical Assumptions: A Critical Analysis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Social Theories of Ageing -- The Importance of a Social Approach to Ageing -- Functionalist Analysis of Old Age -- 1) Disengagement -- Evaluation of Disengagement Theory -- 2) Activity theory -- Evaluation of Activity Theory -- Seminar discussion: -- Lecture: Globalisation and Ageing -- Chapter 3: Critical Perspectives in Gerontology -- Introduction -- Political Economy of Old Age -- From Political Economy to 'Critical' Gerontology? -- Evaluation -- Chapter 4: The Case of Gender and Ageing -- Gender, Sexuality and Ageing -- Seminar Discussion -- Chapter 5: Biographical Approaches to Ageing (Summary Sheet) -- Aims -- In pairs, for 5 minutes jot down: what is a 'biography'? -- Notes: -- How do we use biography for older people? Through interviews gathering information about their past, present and future aspirations. -- 1. Personal (personal biographies - older people as 'carriers of history'. Bornatt (2005) claims that such narratives are about listening to what older people say about their life stories. An important feature of this has been an emphasis upon the ind... -- 2. How do helping professions use biography when working with older people in health and social care spaces? Ageism has been central issue that has not been facilitative in helping older people to become more aware of this oppression and challenge it ... -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Foucauldian Analysis of Social Gerontology -- Introduction -- A History of the Present: Power and Ageing -- The Discursive Formation of Social Work with Older People.

Intro -- UNDERSTANDING RISK AND TRUST: A SHORT CONCEPTUAL EXAMINATION -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: RISK AND WELFARE -- From Trust to Risk? -- Beck and The 'Risk Society' Thesis -- The Governance of Uncertainty in Welfare and Old Age -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3: TRUST AND WELFARE -- INTRODUCTION -- NAVIGATING THE CONCEPTUAL COMPLEXITY OF TRUST -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

This book examines the concept of power. It begins by pointing to its multi-dimensional definition and points to different sociological interpretations of its conception and social practice. The book explores power in two contexts: firstly, micro. It explores professional relations with older people to illuminate how power changes, shifts in emphasis and stabilizes in everyday encounters. Secondly, the book explores the macro features of power. In particular, the book explores the power of aging populations and the macro impact it has on individuals, nation states and the globe. Thus, highligh

This book examines aging and old age from a range of social and cultural approaches. The book begins by examining the emergence of mainstream sociological theories of aging that attempt to go beyond the tradition of bio-medical fatalism. It moves its attention to a cultural analysis of aging through an examination of embodiment. It concludes by arguing for a narrative gerontology that incorporates some of the methodological considerations required to understand and investigate an aging identity in contemporary culture

Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies that function to mediate relations between older people and the state. Medico-technical, victimization policies and care management discourses, have been presented as adding choice and reducing limitations associated with adult aging. However, they also represent an increase in professional control that can be exerted on lifestyles in older age and thus, the wider social meanings associated with th

As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimize an enforced obligation to care. The use of care management technologies that focus on assessment and inspection, can, in this policy climate, become a means of surveillance and enforcement of informal caring. It is argued that Michel Foucault offers a set of strategies (Foucault 1977: 205) for understanding how the discourses on community care construct older people's experiences and their identities, as

Intro -- UNDERSTANDING AGING -- UNDERSTANDING AGING -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN GERONTOLOGY -- POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OLD AGE -- From Political Economy to 'Critical' Gerontology? -- EVALUATION -- THE CASE OF GENDER AND AGING -- GENDER, SEXUALITY AND AGEING -- DISCUSSION -- BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO AGING -- CONCLUSION -- PHENOMENOLOGY OF AGING -- WHAT IS PHENOMENOLOGY? -- PHENOMENOLOGY AND AGING -- (i) Aging and the Biomedical Gaze -- (ii) Aging and Identity -- Towards a Phenomenology of Aging: Biography and the Life Course -- CONCLUSION -- GLOBALISATION AND AGING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- UNDERSTANDING POWER AND EMOTION: AN INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING POWER AND EMOTION: AN INTRODUCTION -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: WHAT IS POWER? -- Chapter 3: POWER-ELITES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY -- Chapter 4: GLOBAL POWER -- THE POWER OF GLOBALIZATION -- THEORETICAL COMPLEXITIES OF GLOBALISATION -- Chapter 5: THE PROBLEM OF POWER AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION -- 'BUILDING BLOCK' OF MODERNISM: COMMUNICATIVE ACTION -- 'IN THE BLUE AND RED CORNERS': LYOTARD V HABERMAS -- PUTTING HABERMAS UNDER THE THEORETICAL MICROSCOPE -- Chapter 6: THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF EMOTION -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERACTIONISM, SYMBOLISM AND SITUATIONAL RELATIONS: EMOTIONS AS PRIVATE TROUBLES -- STRUCTURE, RATIONALITY AND GENDER: EMOTIONS AS 'PUBLIC ISSUES' -- BRINGING EMOTION BACK INTO SOCIAL THEORY: A NEW SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.