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Ageing in a consumer society
Targeted as the 'grey consumer', people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older but have not stopped …
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores …
Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment
‘Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment’ outlines and develops an argument about the emergence of a ‘new ageing’ during the second half of the twentieth century and its realisation …
Ageing and the Media
Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, …
Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland’s population from the start of the Union up to the …
Digital Technologies and Generational Identity
The short lifetime of digital technologies means that generational identities are difficult to establish around any particular technologies let alone around more far-reaching …
Rethinking Old 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 …
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age
How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores …
Cultures of Ageing
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 …
Ageing, Dementia and the Social Mind
A groundbreaking exploration of the sociology of dementia with contributions from distinguished international scholars and practitioners. Organised around the four themes of …
Social Divisions and Later Life
As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned …
Rethinking Old 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 …