Rethinking Old Age
Theorising the Fourth Age
With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the nature of old age, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard reveal the emergence of a 'fourth age' that embodies the most feared and marginalised aspects of old age, conceptually linked to and yet distinct from traditional models of old age. Inspired by the authors' ground-breaking work on the third and fourth age and supported by extensive sociological, medical and historical research, Rethinking Old Age offers a unique and timely analysis of the fourth age as a 'socia…
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Weitere Autoren: Gilleard, Chris
- ISBN: 978-1-137-38400-3
- EAN: 9781137384003
- Produktnummer: 37685193
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
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Paul Higgs is Professor of Sociology of the Ageing in the Division of Psychiatry at University College London, UK.#
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