Old age: constructions and deconstructions / Haim Hazan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazan, Haim.

Series:

Themes in the social sciences

Themes in the Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people.

Old age.

Physical Description:

xi, 126 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Summary:

Focuses on the reality of the experience of old age.

Contents:

Introduction: towards knowledge of old age 1

Ethnographic reflection: touching upon experience 8

Part I Representations of Ageine: Languages About Old Age

1. The social trap: the language of separation 13

2. The cultural trap: the language of images 28

3. The personal trap: the language of self-presentation 33

Ethnographic reflection: practices of separation 37

4. The theoretical trap: the missing language 39

Part II Presentations of Ageine: Languages of the Old

5. Control: the social boundaries of age 53

6. Meaning: the cultural boundaries of life 64

7. Another universe: time, space, and self 74

Ethnographic reflection: the limbo state 87

Conclusions: the nature of knowledge about ageing Ethnographic reflection: the aged as a symbolic type 90.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0521447488

OCLC:

28020346