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Jason L Powell
We need to ask what are the conditions which allow narrative and trust to be formed and performed relating to ageing. This book aims to provide a reflection on epistemologies…
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Personalisation in British social care is linked to both the principle and process that every adult who receives support, will have choice and control over the shape of that support…
Focuses on five themes that link to an argument in the study of ageing and social policy. This book presents a policy context of neo-liberal social policy and implications for…
Provides a critical reflection on theory, welfare and ageing. This book offers an examination on how ageing appears to be moving from individualisation to a globalised world. It is written…
Provides a conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the police. This book helps students gain knowledge of the relationship between police, crime and society; the workings, power and discretion…
Provides students with an overview of the main developments in the foundations in sociological research. This title focuses upon the methodological and philosophical underpinnings of sociological inquiry.
This edited book pays homage to the conceptual gifts left by Michel Foucault and it assesses different aspects of social sciences such as sociology, economics, arts, volunteering, crime, sexuality. The…
This book explores the issue of crime and its relationship to gender and ageing. This is a forgotten area of analysis in disciplines of criminology, gerontology and even in Feminist…
One of the key issues in England is the inter-relationship between voluntary organisations and sustainability. This book examines the factors that impinge upon opening and understanding the black box such…
This book provides a theoretical critique and analysis of the development and consolidation of power in China as it applies to ageing. In seeking to deal with this increased proportion…
Provides a critical introduction to social theory in terms of its engagement with modernity and to a lesser extent, with post-modernity. This book covers the emergence of modern society and…
Includes bibliographical references (p. [63]-81) and index.
‘Feminism’ explores the history and contemporary rise and consolidation of feminism. This text engages with conceptual development, historical formation, contemporary relevance and uses several examples from research to assess the…
This innovative book locates the historical emergence of post-modernism and what it is a reaction against. One of the key theorists of post-modernism, is Jean Baudrillard. He has had an…
This title explores the work of German philosopher and social theorist Jurgen Habermas. It provides a context for the emergence of his critical theory and key influences. The text explores…
This book explores the concept of power and emotion. The book begins by examining the conceptual problems and issues associated with theorizing power drawing from classical, modern and contemporary social…
This book explores the historical developments in social theory and critical theorising about history by Michel Foucault. The book begins by explicating the major conceptual developments in American and European…
This book analyses the key issues inherent for the voluntary sector as it relates to the experiences of older people. The book reviews the major issues for older people’s needs…
This book explores the relationship between globalisation and global changes in populational structures across the world. The book begins by surveying the issue of inequality across the world and some…
This book explores the concept of ageing and presents it in the disciplinary field entitled ‘Social Gerontology’. The book examines key theories that have emerged and the problems and possibilities…
This book explores the theoretical issues inherent in exploring later life in modern society. To deal effectively with the challenges created by population ageing, it is vital to first understand…
Sociology is the systematic study of the taken-for-granted assumptions that people make about everyday life. This book explores a triumvirate of important concepts in sociology: power, trust and globalisation. These…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-70) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-75) and index.
This book explores the global challenge: understanding ageing as a medical concept, social concept and population term. The focus is on China and global ageing. The book further assesses the…
This book is one of the first to explore contemporary welfare developments in the western world through a conceptual lens that is utilised by Michel Foucault and Foucault-inspired scholars. In…
This book explores the main issues in new social science approaches to understanding the human body and ageing. In particular, the development of postmodernism and its relationship to culture and…
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 ageing dominated…
This book explores the relationship between education, employment and pensions in contemporary western society. The book is in two parts. The first part focuses on theoretical interpretations of youth and…
This original book explores the nature and extent of global aging in contemporary society. It examines the impact of populational aging on different continents in the world. The book then…
This book explores the relevance of key thinkers in social science from historical traditions to contemporary philosophers and the nature of modern society and how theories and concepts can be…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-60) and index.
This book examines the concept of aging. It interrogates how it has been co-opted and absorbed by bio-medical approaches to gerontology. The book explores how the concept of risk is…
This book, which draws from fieldwork research and evidence, is provided to suggest a sense of emotional anxiety among social workers and case managers working on the front-line’ within local…
This book examines aging and old age from a range of social and cultural approaches. The book begins by examining the emergence of mainstream sociological theories of aging that attempt…
This book examines the social analysis of emotion as well as its multifaceted interpretation by social theories emanating from the critical social science field. An overview of positivist, interpretative and…
This book assesses the historical and modern significance and emergence of global forces and its impact on nation states. In particular, the power of globalisation comprises two inter-locking factors: economic…
As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimise…
Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimise and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies that function…
This text examines the rise and consolidation of feminist insights into contemporary social theory. The book begins by providing an historical backdrop that led to the emergence of women’s experiences…
Jason L. Powell
This book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).
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This book explores specific theories on ageing grounded through examination of several issues in social welfare. The book will review different understandings of becoming and being old and how these…
This book is a demographical overview of the key issues associated with globalisation and global aging in the 21st century. The book explores how populational aging has increased the implications…
This book explores the concept of key concepts, theories and practices related to life course issues associated with social work, power and trust in contemporary society. The book begins by…
Debunking the central theoretical tenets of postmodernism with reference to identity, methodology, governance and modernist theory, this book engages with social issues and events in popular culture - for example…
Addresses social and economic changes in China through a kaleidoscope of differential perspectives that focus on how family continues to be an important reference point for the institution in the…
Explores the relationship between risk and social welfare. This book presents a contextual overview of contemporary theories on risk and critically examines the relevance of risk to social policy and…
Sheying Chen,Jason L Powell
Examines what the world has learned so far in dealing with ageing. This title discusses how such a country as China has kept up with that learning. By combining general…
