Social philosophy, age and aging / Jason L. Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Jason L., 1971-

Series:

Social Perspectives in the 21st Century (Series Editor: Jason L. Powell, Dean of Faculty, University

Social perspectives in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Aging.

Gerontology--Philosophy.

Gerontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (84 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book attempts to unravel the fundamental assumptions of social philosophy and how its different concepts and theories make sense of human aging. The book explores how biomedical aging dominated thoughts on aging until social understandings from different disciplines came about that highlighted that aging could be understood in terms of social class, gender and ethnicity. A key debate in recent years has been the critical approach versus positive approach. The final two chapters of the book explore Foucauldian philosophy applied to instances of the aging process; whilst the final chapter a

Contents:

""SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, AGE AND AGING""; ""SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, AGE AND AGING""; ""LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: WHAT IS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND AGE?""; ""GERONTOLOGY AS “SCIENCE�""; ""GERONTOLOGY AS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY""; ""MAPPING OUT THE TERRAIN""; ""THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK""; ""Chapter 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHIES OF AGE AND AGING""; ""SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE RISE OF FUNCTIONALIST ACCOUNTS OF AGE AND AGING""; ""POLITICAL ECONOMY""; ""FEMINIST GERONTOLOGY""; ""POSTMODERN GERONTOLOGY""; ""CONCLUSION""

""Chapter 3: FOCAULT, AGE AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY""""RE-APPLYING FOUCAULT TO POWER/KNOWLEDGE MANIFESTATIONS""; ""POWER""; ""MEDICINES, RISK AND CONSUMERISM""; ""SURVEILLANCE AND OLD AGE""; ""NORMALISING AGING""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Chapter 4: TIME TO RECOGNISE PERSONHOOD AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY: THE CASE OF AGE IDENTITY?""; ""THE RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND PERSONHOOD""; ""PERSONHOOD AND AGING""; ""TOWARDS A PERSONHOOD OF AGING: BIOGRAPHY AND THE LIFE COURSE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62808-392-1

OCLC:

855534397