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9780742519541

Social Theory And Aging

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742519541

  • ISBN10:

    0742519546

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-17
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).

Author Biography

Jason L. Powell is lecturer in sociology at the University of Liverpool in England

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Charles Lemert
vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis 1(16)
PART I Modern Constructions of Aging
2 Occidental Modernity, the Biomedical Gaze, and Aging
17(26)
3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches
43(22)
PART II Postmodern Deconstructions of Aging
4 Postmodernism, Culture, and the Aging Body
65(24)
5 The "Foucault Effect" and Aging: Relations of Power, Surveillance, and Governmentality
89(28)
6 Aging in the "Risk Society"
117(18)
7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging
135(6)
References 141(12)
Index 153

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