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• catalog abstract ""Is age by itself inclusive enough to make sense of changes and transitions over the life course? The Need for Theory explores how best to alloy the standard analytic techniques employed by social gerontologists to provide a more effective, nuanced, and insightful view of the assumptive realities thought to characterize the later years. Readers will come away from this book a little less sanguine about the nature of cause and effect within the experience of aging." "The Need for Theory speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world. Using their keen insights into substantive issues, the contributors examine personal and structural changes affecting individuals over the life course. Extolling the heed for theory is not enough; the contributors focus their insights on a panoply of substantive issues, linking the personal with the political and with the structural parameters that shape the process of aging, no matter where it occurs. Building on a discerning overview of conceptual questions in contemporary gerontology, from social constructionism, to feminism, to social-psychological, structural, and political economy perspectives, the authors map key issues, paradoxes, and contradictions facing gerontology now and in the future. Their discussions are sure to engage readers who are themselves concerned with developing explanatory frameworks that reach beyond facile descriptions of existing practices."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12932334.
• catalog contributor b12932335.
• catalog contributor b12932336.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""Is age by itself inclusive enough to make sense of changes and transitions over the life course? The Need for Theory explores how best to alloy the standard analytic techniques employed by social gerontologists to provide a more effective, nuanced, and insightful view of the assumptive realities thought to characterize the later years. Readers will come away from this book a little less sanguine about the nature of cause and effect within the experience of aging." "The Need for Theory speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world. Using their keen insights into substantive issues, the contributors examine personal and structural changes affecting individuals over the life course. Extolling the heed for theory is not enough; the contributors focus their insights on a panoply of substantive issues, linking the personal with the political and with the structural parameters that shape the process of aging, no matter where it occurs. Building on a discerning overview of conceptual questions in contemporary gerontology, from social constructionism, to feminism, to social-psychological, structural, and political economy perspectives, the authors map key issues, paradoxes, and contradictions facing gerontology now and in the future. Their discussions are sure to engage readers who are themselves concerned with developing explanatory frameworks that reach beyond facile descriptions of existing practices."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction, Need for theory in gerontology / Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, and Ariela Lowenstein -- Critical gerontological theory : intellectual fieldwork and the nomadic life of ideas / Steven Katz -- Perils and possibilities of theory / Ruth E. Ray -- Legacy of social constructionism for social gerontology / Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz -- Structure and identity-- mind the gap : toward a personal resource model of successful aging / Jon Hendricks -- Sense and structure : toward a sociology of old bodies / Emmanuelle Tulle -- Contemporary later-life family transitions : revisiting theoretical perspectives on aging and the family-- toward a family identity framework / Ariela Lowenstein -- Aging paradox : toward personal meaning in gerontological theory / Gerben J. Westerhof, Freya Dittmann-Kohli, and Christina Bode -- Negotiating aging identity : surface, depth, and masquerade / Simon Biggs -- Globalization and the reconstruction of old age : new challenges for critical gerontology / Chris Phillipson -- Theoretical approaches to problems of families, aging, and social support in the context of modernization / Merrill Silverstein, Vern L. Bengtson, and Eugene Litwak -- Theorizing age relations / Toni Calasanti -- Theoretical perspectives on old age policy : a critique and a proposal / Carroll L. Estes -- Where is theory headed? / Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, and Ariela Lowenstein.".
• catalog extent "vi, 262 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Need for theory.".
• catalog identifier "0895032775 (cloth)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Need for theory.".
• catalog isPartOf "Society and aging series".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co.,".
• catalog relation "Need for theory.".
• catalog subject "305.26 21".
• catalog subject "Aging.".
• catalog subject "Gerontology.".
• catalog subject "HQ1061 .N6 2003".
• catalog subject "Older people.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction, Need for theory in gerontology / Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, and Ariela Lowenstein -- Critical gerontological theory : intellectual fieldwork and the nomadic life of ideas / Steven Katz -- Perils and possibilities of theory / Ruth E. Ray -- Legacy of social constructionism for social gerontology / Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz -- Structure and identity-- mind the gap : toward a personal resource model of successful aging / Jon Hendricks -- Sense and structure : toward a sociology of old bodies / Emmanuelle Tulle -- Contemporary later-life family transitions : revisiting theoretical perspectives on aging and the family-- toward a family identity framework / Ariela Lowenstein -- Aging paradox : toward personal meaning in gerontological theory / Gerben J. Westerhof, Freya Dittmann-Kohli, and Christina Bode -- Negotiating aging identity : surface, depth, and masquerade / Simon Biggs -- Globalization and the reconstruction of old age : new challenges for critical gerontology / Chris Phillipson -- Theoretical approaches to problems of families, aging, and social support in the context of modernization / Merrill Silverstein, Vern L. Bengtson, and Eugene Litwak -- Theorizing age relations / Toni Calasanti -- Theoretical perspectives on old age policy : a critique and a proposal / Carroll L. Estes -- Where is theory headed? / Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, and Ariela Lowenstein.".
• catalog title "The need for theory : critical approaches to social gerontology / edited by Simon Biggs, Ariela Lowenstein, Jon Hendricks.".
• catalog type "text".