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Sociology of Aging and Death

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 35)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19329-3

ISBN: 978-3-031-19328-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 26, 2022

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: What Is Aging?

Powell, Jason

Pages: 1 –14

[The social research topic of death in old age is very timely and important in the twenty-first century. One of the fundamental reasons of this subject’s significance is connected with the fact that by talking about death in old age we can create a much needed space for critical debates about...
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Chapter 2Social Constructions of Aging: Theoretical Excursions

Powell, Jason

Pages: 15 –30

[This book is about deconstructing assumptions of aging and death through the theoretical prisms of social gerontology which is also about illuminating new social horizons based on theoretical development. There has long been a propensity in matters of aging and old age to engage in the...
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Chapter 3Risk and Aging

Powell, Jason

Pages: 31 –41

[This chapter explores the complex relationship between aging, risk, and welfare in contemporary British society. I do this by interrogating the space between what has been coined the “risk society” and the policy implications both for older people in relation to the extension of their working...
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Chapter 4Postmodern Sociology and Aging

Powell, Jason

Pages: 43 –61

[In the previous chapter, we interrogated the social construction of aging and old age comprising of mainstream understanding of risky aging. Indeed, such approaches are significant to pointing to emergence of financial problems of aging as cast through the socioeconomic gaze such as private...
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Chapter 5The Management of Aging in the Dark Side of Modernity

Powell, Jason

Pages: 63 –73

[This chapter provides a theoretical critique and analysis of the development and consolidation of managerial power in the United Kingdom that has implications for older people and their life chances. It fundamentally questions the assumption that mangerialism in the post-welfare state has...
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Chapter 6“It Could Happen to Me”: Victimization and Aging

Powell, Jason

Pages: 75 –84

[The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between later life, victimization, and crime. It is by deconstructing the perception of the older victim, that research has shown that the perception of the level of vulnerability and fear of crime is inversely disproportionate to being...
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Chapter 7Elder Abuse and Aging

Powell, Jason

Pages: 85 –95

[The central argument pursued in this chapter is that an accelerating interest in elder abuse is central to understanding it as a modern crime as a social phenomenon. It will be argued that the “discovery” of elder abuse legitimates practice in which the social policy makers monitor but does not...
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Chapter 8Aging in an Era of COVID-19

Powell, Jason

Pages: 97 –114

[Researchers and social policymakers from across the globe are increasingly concerned about the accelerating numbers of older people in their societies despite public health concerns about COVID-19.]
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Chapter 9Death, Culture, and Aging

Powell, Jason

Pages: 115 –124

[This chapter is concerned with understanding the relationship of discourses of death with the social philosophy of Michel Foucault. Foucault’s theoretical tools “make sense” of discourses of death in institutions such as care homes. While our responses to death and dying would seem to be very...
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Chapter 10Rethinking Aging: Toward Trust Relations?

Powell, Jason

Pages: 125 –135

[Trust is loaded with a range of problems for governments with older people with the issues uncovered in this book. For example, health legislation has in the past decade received scantily uncritical policy acclaim. Integrating health and social care policy based on the triumvirate of “autonomy,”...

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