Social Theory And Aging

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).

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

Series Editor's Foreword

Charles Lemert

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Acknowledgments

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1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis

1

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PART I Modern Constructions of Aging

2 Occidental Modernity, the Biomedical Gaze, and Aging

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(26)

3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches

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(22)

PART II Postmodern Deconstructions of Aging

4 Postmodernism, Culture, and the Aging Body

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(24)

5 The "Foucault Effect" and Aging: Relations of Power, Surveillance, and Governmentality

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6 Aging in the "Risk Society"

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7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging

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References

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Index

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Social Theory And Aging

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