Ageing and Diversity: Multiple Pathways and Cultural Migrations

Herausgeber: Daatland, Svein Olav; Biggs, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

To understand contemporary ageing, it is necessary to recognize its diversity. Drawing on an extraordinary range of theory, original research, and empirical sources, Ageing and Diversitynow in paperbackassesses the stereotyped conceptions of ageing, and offers a critical and updated perspective. The book explores the diversity of individual pathways of ageing, the sources of identifications, migration, and otherness, and the tension between social structures and personal agency. It considers multidisciplinary and international perspectives as an important means of understanding the diversity of ageing, and the need for change in established notions and policies. Ageing and Diversity also addresses key issues such as global ageing, migration, transnational community, and citizenship, and incorporates theories and findings from psychology, sociology, anthropology, demography, social policy, and health sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781861348470
• ISBN-10: 1861348479
• Artikelnr.: 21781100

Inhaltsangabe

Ageing and diversity: a critical introduction ~ Simon Biggs and Svein Olav
Daatland; Section I: Individual pathways: Ageing differently: potential and
limits ~ Jacqui Smith and Denis Gerstorf; The personal meaning of
individuality and relatedness: gender differences in middle and late
adulthood ~ Gerben J. Westerhof and Christina Bode; Diversity, health and
ageing ~ Lars Andersson and Peter Öberg; Gender trajectories: how age and
marital status influence patterns of gender inequality in later life ~ Sara
Arber; Section II: Social identifications: The search for ageing identities
~ Andrew Blaikie; New ageism: age imperialism, personal experience and
ageing policy ~ Simon Biggs; Sexuality in gerontology: a heteronormative
presence, a queer absence ~ Ann Cronin; Section III: Migration and
otherness: Making sense of the construct of successful ageing: the migrant
experience ~ Sandra Torres; Older foreign migrants in Europe: multiple
pathways and welfare positions ~ Tony Warnes; Transnational communities,
migration and changing identities in later life: a new research agenda ~
Chris Phillipson and Nilufar Ahmed; Section IV: Structure and agency:
Societal trends and lifecourse events affecting diversity in later life ~
Jenny De Jong Gierveld; Quality of life and social inequality in old age ~
Andreas Motel-Klingebiel; Class, power and inequality in later life ~ Paul
Higgs and Chris Gilleard; Ageing and diversity, what next? ~ Svein Olav
Daatland and Simon Biggs.