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| Aging, Globalization and Inequality: The New Critical Gerontology (Society and Aging) | 
| Authors: Jan Baars, Dale Dannefer, Chris Phillipson, Alan Walker
Publisher: Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 321249
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 291
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0895033585
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.26
EAN: 9780895033581
ASIN: 0895033585
Publication Date: January 22, 2006
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Product Description
This book is a major reassessment of work in the field of critical gerontology, providing a comprehensive survey of issues by a team of contributors drawn from Europe and North America. The book focuses on the variety of ways in which age and aging are socially constructed, and the extent to which growing old is being transformed through processes associated with globalization. The collection offers a range of alternative views and visions about the nature of social aging, making a major contribution to theory-building within the discipline of gerontology. The different sections of the book give an overview of the key issues and concerns underlying the development of critical gerontology. These include: first, the impact of globalization and of multinational organizations and agencies on the lives of older people; second, the factors contributing to the "social construction" of later life; and third, issues associated with diversity and inequality in old age, arising through the effects of cumulative advantage and disadvantage over the life course. These different themes are analyzed using a variety of theoretical perspectives drawn from sociology, social policy, political science, and social anthropology. Aging, Globalization and Inequality brings together key contributors to critical perspectives on aging and is unique in the range of themes and concerns covered in a single volume. The study moves forward an important area of debate in studies of aging and thus provides the basis for a new type of critical gerontology relevant to the twenty-first century.
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