Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

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Adriana Teodorescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Dan Chiribucă (University Babes –Bolyai, Romania)

Shaping Ageing

Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings

Adriana Teodorescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania), Dan Chiribucă (University Babes –Bolyai, Romania)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Age groups: the elderly; Sociology

Series: Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life

This volume examines the manifold, often contradictory, aspects of ageing, considering the ways in which contemporary social transformations affect the experience, conception, interpretation, and representation of ageing. Thematically arranged, it brings together the latest scholarly work from around the world to consider theories and narratives of ageing and the effects of space and place on identity and the experience of old age. Combining micro and macro perspectives, as well as theoretical and applied research, this interdisciplinary volume offers cross-cultural and comparative studies that resist overgeneralization and reductivism in an effort to shed fresh light on our experience, understanding, and response to ageing in the modern world. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, particularly sociology, gerontology, demography, social policy, and cultural studies, with interests in ageing and later life.

Edited by: Adriana Teodorescu (Babes-Bolyai University Romania), Dan Chiribucă (University Babes –Bolyai, Romania)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367495961
ISBN 10: 0367495961
Series: Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Ageing Matters: A Constructivist Perspective Part 1: Theories and Narratives of Ageing and Old Age 1. The Philosophic Homework of Later Life: On Narrative, Wisdom, and the Positive Potential of Growing Old 2. Gerontophobia: The Cultural Roots of the Old-Age Anxiety in Contemporary Society 3. Cougars and Crones: Maverick Archetypes for Older Women 4. Visual Representations of Older Persons: Current Discourses and their Historical Roots 5. ‘Positive Ageing Happens in The West’: Ageing Perceptions and Active Ageing Policy Implementation Among Romanian General Practitioners Part 2: Ageing and Old Age in Different Spaces 6. ‘It’s Okay to Color Outside the Lines’: Living, Ageing and Dying in a Hospice ‘Home’ 7. Ageing Behind Locked Doors: Growing Older in Secure Mental Health Care and Prison Settings 8. Providing Elderly Care in Precarious Settings: A Case Study in Lima, Peru 9. Risks and Promises of Being Old in Social Media 10. Beauty in Later Life: Voices from Older Korean Women in New Zealand

Adriana Teodorescu is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, and the co-editor of Death in Contemporary Popular Culture. Dan Chiribucă is Professor of Sociology at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.