Social theorists have yet to assess the cultural implications of population aging. This book traces the historical emergence of stereotypes of retirement and documents their latter-day dissolution, making striking use of visual sources, especially photography. Policy perceptions, media images and popular understandings are shown to suggest that the extended leisure phase known as the Third Age is breaking down old barriers between mid and later life. However, as the "gray market" perpetuates the quest for eternal youth, the biological realities of deep old age present an increasingly difficult challenge.
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"This book traces the historical emergence of stereotypes of retirement and documents their recent demise. Its argument is that, although modernization, marginalization, and medicalization created rigid age classifications, the rise of comsumer culture has coincided with a postmodern broadening of options for those in the Third Age." Ethics, Law, and Aging Review
"The volume should provide foord for thought among sociologists of aging and social gerontologists, excite discussion among graduate students, and perhaps inspire new directions for research on aging." Intimate Relationships, Family, and Life Course, J. Beth Mabry and Vern L. Bengtson, University of Southern California
"The volume should provide foord for thought among sociologists of aging and social gerontologists, excite discussion among graduate students, and perhaps inspire new directions for research on aging." Intimate Relationships, Family, and Life Course, J. Beth Mabry and Vern L. Bengtson, University of Southern California
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Social theorists have yet to assess the cultural implications of population ageing. This book traces the historical emergence of stereotypes of retirement and documents their latter-day dissolution, making striking use of visual sources, especially photography. Policy perceptions, media images and popular understandings are shown to suggest that the extended leisure phase known as the Third Age is breaking down old barriers between mid and later life. However, as the 'grey market' perpetuates the quest for eternal youth, the biological realities of deep old age present an increasingly difficult challenge.
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deep old age, positive ageing, busy ethic, emerging political power, postmodern life course, versus pensioners, structured dependency, critical gerontology, retirement migration, ageing body, activity theorists, grey market, third age, social gerontology, fourth age, age consciousness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, United States, Oxford University Press, Generations Review, Second World War, The Parents, Basil Blackwell, Critical Approaches, Joan Collins, Open University Press, The Last Refuge, Washington Wilson, Who's Looking, Images of Aging, Lytham St Anne, North America, Political Anatomy, Coronation Street, Croom Helm, Educational Gerontology, Grace Robertson, Jane Fonda, National Galleries of Scotland New!
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Before examining the contemporary culture of ageing, it is necessary to outline the historical frame of reference. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
deep old age, positive ageing, busy ethic, emerging political power, postmodern life course, versus pensioners, structured dependency, critical gerontology, retirement migration, ageing body, activity theorists, grey market, third age, social gerontology, fourth age, age consciousness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, United States, Oxford University Press, Generations Review, Second World War, The Parents, Basil Blackwell, Critical Approaches, Joan Collins, Open University Press, The Last Refuge, Washington Wilson, Who's Looking, Images of Aging, Lytham St Anne, North America, Political Anatomy, Coronation Street, Croom Helm, Educational Gerontology, Grace Robertson, Jane Fonda, National Galleries of Scotland New!
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- SOCIOLOGY OF OLD AGE PB by Fennell Et on 8 pages
- Ageing and Later Life (Published in association with The Open University) by Julia Johnson on 5 pages
- The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch on 4 pages
- Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life (Pelican) by Stanley Cohen on 4 pages
- Female Desire (Paladin Books) by Rosalind Coward on 4 pages
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- Media Studies: The Essential Resource (Essentials) by Sarah Casey Benyahia in Front Matter, page 44, and Back Matter
- Granny @ Work: Aging and New Technology on the Job in America by Karen E. Riggs in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Divisions by Geoff Payne on page 151, and Back Matter
- Researching Ageing And Later Life by Anne Jamieson on page 48, and page 93
- Disability: A Life Course Approach by Mark Priestley on page 164, and Back Matter
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