Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent
in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of
study and practice. "Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age"
applies the methods of discourse analysis and textual analysis to
texts and documents in this newly evolved and eclectic fi eld.
Green explores and identifies the literary methods and discursive
regularities through which aging and the aged have been made into
objects of study and treatment, and which together form a mode of
knowledge production that will infl uence future texts in the
field.
Because such formats of representation limit rational diagnoses
of problems and rational courses of ameliorative action, policy
implications in the fi eld of gerontology are a major interest of
this study. Another interest is methodological. Within the broader
constructionist approach to social reality, Green takes the
position of "constitutive realism" the notion that social reality
is linguistically constructed, primarily in speech and writing.
The book's two aims are to describe analytically the fi eld of
gerontology. The field is important both for its growing academic
presence and for its practical eff ects on discourse and policy
concerning old age. It also hopes to help develop possibilities of
inquiry associated with the linguistic, literary, and rhetorical
turns of social science in recent years. "Gerontology and the
Construction of Old Age" is a substantive investigation, at
considerable theoretical depth, of gerontology itself, as well as a
methodological treatise with broader implications for social
science as it focuses upon the discourse of various professional
fields.
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