Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives in social gerontology / Tannistha Samanta, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samanta, Tannistha, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social gerontology.

Aging--Cross-cultural studies.

Aging.

Well-being--Age factors.

Well-being.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore: Springer, [2016]

Summary:

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the "problems" associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap in the gerontological scholarship of the global south that is predominantly descriptive and empirical. Based on original research, this volume examines in particular the sociological question of inequality and its intersection with age, gender, health, family and social relations. In the process, the studies herein highlight the unique historical, institutional and social systems that govern the subjective experience of aging in diverse contexts globally. Specifically, societies in transition including India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan, China, Israel and in Europe are studied while connecting the micro-social experience of aging (loneliness, wellbeing, discrimination, relationships and resilience) with larger temporal and political contexts. This exercise generates intellectual capital that reformulates links between aging research and policy in innovative ways. Overall, the volume echoes the global scientific commitment to understand the sociocultural process of aging in transitional societies and utilizes rich opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas, disciplines and methods to advance the gerontological promise of critical inquiry, training and practice.

Contents:

Part I. Frameworks and integrative approaches

Briding the gap: theory and research in social gerontology / Tannistha Samanta

Who will care for the elder caregiver? Outlining theoretical approaches and future research questions / Subharti Ghosh, Benjamin Capistrant and Greta Friedemann-Sánchez

Social psychology and gerontology: integrating theory to explain and intervene in age discrimination toward older people in Europe / Sibila Marques, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Hannah J. Swift, Christopher Bratt, Maria Luísa Lima and Dominic Abrams

Part II. Culture, contexts and aging

Aging and subjectivity: ethnography, experience and cultural context / Jason Danely

Neoliberalism and resilience among older Yoruba people in a semiurban community, South West Nigeria / Ojo Melvin Agunbiade and Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi

Social capital, interrupted: sociological reflections from old age homes in Ahmedabad, India / Tannistha Samanta and Jagriti Gangopadhyay

Engaging the future as ethnographic object: Japan's aging society crisis, ontogenesis and cybernetics / Ender Ricart

Part III. Health and well being

Antecedents of subjective wellbeing among older adults in Kerala / S. Irudaya Rajan, Anusmita Devi, Tannistha Samanta and S. Sunitha

Early lfie critical transitions in the relationship between current life stressors and depressive symptoms among community-residing older Lebanese adults / May H. Aydin, Abla Mehio Sibai and Anthony Rizk

Analysis of perceived health status among elderly in India: gender and positional objectivity / Zakir Husain and Dona Ghosh

The relationship between spatial activity and wellbeing-related data among healthy older adults: an exploratory geographic and psychological analysis / Michal Isaacson, Hans-Werner Wahl, Noam Shoval, Frank Oswald and Gail Auslander

The changes of disability-free life expectancy and inter-generation support for the elderly in China: 2005-2010 / Wei Guo

Elderly inpatient care utilization and financing in India: is there a gender difference? / William Joe, Abhishek Kumar and Udaya Shankar Mishra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789811016530

9811016534

OCLC:

950952887