Ageing, meaning and social structure : connecting critical and humanistic gerontology / edited by Jan Baars, Joseph Dohmen, Amanda Grenier and Chris Phillipson.
A wide range of contributors focus on major issues in ageing such as autonomy, agency, frailty, lifestyle, social isolation, dementia and professional challenges in social work and participatory research.
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Critical gerontology as structural analysis
- Humanistic gerontology: articulations of interpersonal meaning in old age
- Critical and humanistic perspectives
- 2. Connecting meaning with social structure: theoretical foundations
- Introduction
- Meaning, independence and interdependence
- Roots of independence
- Another side of modernity
- Meanings in life and ageing
- Meaning, systemic worlds and life worlds
- Responses from critical gerontology: human rights and global change
- Conclusion: contingent and existential limitations
- 3. My own life: ethics, ageing and lifestyle
- Introduction
- From emancipation to life politics
- Recent moral philosophical reflections on life politics
- Ethics, ageing and lifestyle
- Conclusion
- 4. Rethinking agency in late life: structural and interpretive approaches1
- Introduction
- The 'fourth age' defined
- Approaches to agency
- Interpretive and psycho-dynamic perspectives on ageing
- Reframing agency in the fourth age
- New approaches to agency in the fourth age
- Conclusion
- 5. Dementia: beyond structures of medicalisation and cultural neglect
- Introduction
- Beyond medicalisation: the 'Kitwood shift'
- Beyond Kitwood
- Beyond cultural neglect: dementia and citizenship
- Conclusion
- 6. Self-realisation and ageing: a spiritual perspective
- Introduction
- Individualisation, self-realisation and ageing in late modernity
- Self-realisation and the self
- Sprituality and self-realisation in later life
- Ageing and spiritual development
- Discussion: the merits of the spiritual perspective in relation to self-realisation
- Conclusion
- 7. Social ability or social frailty? The balance between autonomy and connectedness in the lives of older people
- Introduction.
- Meaning of personal relationships
- Social relationships in a late modern society
- Loneliness, social isolation and social exclusion
- Social networks of older adults
- Changes in the network
- Life events
- Personal competencies
- Social ability and personal competencies of older adults
- Ageing well
- Conclusion
- 8. Critical perspectives on social work with older people
- Introduction
- Challenges in contemporary social work practice with older people
- Current trends in service provision
- Developing critical perspectives
- Conclusion
- 9. Community-based participatory action research: opportunities and challenges for critical gerontology
- Introduction
- CALL-ME project
- Politics of participation
- Em-power-ment, the subject and space
- Reflexivity and the production of knowledge
- Reflections
- 10. Commentary: contingent ageing, naturalisation and some rays of intellectual hope
- Introduction
- Contingent and existential ageing
- Theory and practice
- Index.