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Cultures of Ageing

Self, Citizen and the Body

Paul Higgs author Chris Gilleard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves the study of ageing from social policy towards the mainstream of social science.

ISBN: 9780582356412

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

232 pages