Sociology of aging and death / Jason Powell.
Powell, Jason L., 1971- author.
2022
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Title Sociology of aging and death / Jason Powell.
Author Powell, Jason L., 1971- author.
ISBN 9783031193293 (electronic bk.)
3031193296 (electronic bk.)
9783031193286
3031193288
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19329-3
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 168 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-19329-3 doi
Call Number HQ1061
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.26
Summary This book presents a critical analysis and examination of the major theories and social issues in the social construction of aging and death. It is concerned with the impact of death and places how our experiences of death are transformed by the roles that truth and discourse about aging play in everyday life. A major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to construct meaning and purpose for life and death. To accentuate this, the book provides an investigation into the social construction of death practices across time and space. Special attention is given to the notion of death as a socially accomplished phenomenon grounded in a unique sociological introduction to the meaning of death throughout history to the present. The purpose of this book is to critically inform debates concerning the abstract and empirical features of death examined through the lens of sociological perspectives. This book explores the emergent biomedical dominance relating to ageing and death. An alternative is advocated which re-interprets ageing for Graduate schools. This innovative book explores the concept, history and theory of aging and its relationship to death. Traditionally, many books have focused on older people dying of 'natural causes', a biomedical explanatory framework. This book looks at alternative social theories and experiences with aging and relate to death in different countries, victims, crime, imprisonment and institutional care. Are these deaths avoidable? If so, what are the solutions the book addresses. This is one of the first books that re-interprets aging and its relationship of examples of death. It will be of essential reading for graduate students and researchers in understanding these different examples of aging and death across the globe.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series International perspectives on aging ; 35.
Available in Other Form Sociology of aging and death.
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1. Introduction - What Is Aging?
2. The Social Construction of Aging Theoretical Excursions
3. Risk and Aging
4. Postmodern Deconstructions of Aging
5. The Management of Aging in the Dark Side of Modernity
6. "It could happen to me" : victimisation and Aging
7. Elder Abuse and Aging
8. Covid 19 and Aging
9. Death, Culture and Aging
10. Towards Trust Relations in Contemporary Society?
11. Looking Forward: Concluding Comments.

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