THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING AND SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY: CRITICAL TENSIONS AND NECESSARY DISTINCTIONS
Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard · 2023
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Higgs and Gilleard argue that ageing research needs a clearer split in twenty twenty-three. The sociology of ageing studies later life as a social process. Social gerontology instead focuses on policy and advocacy for older people. The authors say the two fields became tangled, and sociology lost ground.
Policy concerns and service needs dominate the gerontology side. Critical and cultural gerontology pushed the fields further apart. Meanwhile, how people age is changing in ways sociology should address. The authors call for a renewed sociology of ageing using current social theory. It should study social structure, symbols of age, and lived bodily experience. Separating the fields would also give gerontology better tools, they argue.
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| CREATOR | Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |