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GERO 4515

Soc 4515 WA Issues in Social Gerontology

Historical course

Winter 2013

Topics

  • Social
  • Construction
  • Gilleard
  • Chris
  • Paul
  • Higgs
  • “Ageing
  • Abjection
  • Embodiment
  • Fourth
  • Age.”
  • Journal
  • Aging
  • Studies
  • Hazan
  • Haim
  • Constructions
  • Deconstructions
  • Mykytyn
  • Courtney
  • Everts
  • History
  • Future
  • Emergence
  • Contemporary

Readings

  • 2000. Handbook of the Humanities and Aging (2nd
  • Ed.). NY: Springer Publishing.
  • 1994. Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions. NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jamieson, Anne, Sarah Harper and Christina Victor (eds.).
  • Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
  • Johnson, Malcolm L. (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
  • 2000. “The History of Aging in the West.” Pp. 3‐24 in Cole et al., Handbook of the
  • Perspective of Aging.” Pp. 555‐571 in Handbook of Theories of Aging, 2nd ed.*
Winter 2010 · Sociology 4515 WA; Issues in Social Gerontology

Topics

  • Old Age as a Social Construction
  • Oldness Amongst Peers.” Journal of Aging Studies 21: 69–80
  • Deconstructions
  • Focus Question: What does it mean to say that old age is a social construction?
  • Can you give examples of how age is socially constructed?
  • Fry, Christine L. 2006. “Whatever Happened to Culture?” in Sheets
  • et al., Enduring Questions in Gerontology (on reserve)
  • Hareven, Tamara K. 1995. “Changing Images of Aging and the Social
  • Construction of the Life Course.” in Featherstone & Wernick
  • Images of Aging (on reserve)
  • Thane, Pat. 2000. “The History of Aging in the West.” in Cole et al
  • Handbook of the Humanities and Aging (on reserve)
  • Focus Question: How have constructions of age changed over time?
  • Critical Approaches in Social Gerontology
  • Kail, Ben Lennox, Jill Quadagno & Jennifer Reid Keene. 2009. “The Political
  • Economy Perspective of Aging.” in Handbook of Theories of Aging
  • nd ed. (article on reserve)
  • Andrews & Phillips, Ageing and Place (on reserve)
  • Achenbaum, Andrew. 1997. “Critical Gerontology.” in Jamieson et al

Readings

  • Required: Books on reserve at the library:
  • Required: Andrews, Gavin J., and David R. Phillips (eds.). 2005 Ageing and Place: Perspectives
  • Required: Policy, Practice. NY: Routledge.
  • Required: Cole, Thomas R., Robert Kastenbaum and Ruth E. Ray (eds.). 2000. Handbook of the Humanities and Aging (2nd Ed.). NY: Springer Publishing.
  • Required: Featherstone, Mike, and Andrew Wernick (eds.). 1995. Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life. London: Routledge.
  • Required: Hazan, Haim. 1994. Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions. NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Required: Jamieson, Anne, Sarah Harper and Christina Victor (eds.). 1997. Critical Approaches to Ageing and Later Life. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
  • Required: Johnson, Malcolm L. (ed.). 2005. The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Required: Minkler, Meredith and Carroll L. Estes, (eds.). 1999. Critical Gerontology: Perspectives from Political and Moral Economy. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing.
  • Required: Sheets, Debra J., Dana Burr Bradley and Jon Hendricks (eds.). 2006. Enduring Questions in Gerontology. New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Required: Issues in Social Gerontology, Winter 2010 2
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