Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body

by Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard

Book Overview

For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582356415
• ISBN13: 9780582356412
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 11.3"