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Human Clocks - The Bio-Cultural Meanings of Age (Paperback)
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Human Clocks - The Bio-Cultural Meanings of Age (Paperback)
Series: Population, Famille et Societe - Population, Family, and Society, 5
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Age is a complex cross-cutting notion for at least two reasons: the
intricate interweaving of its biological and socio-cultural
meanings and its dual significance as both a benchmark in an
individual's life course and a foundation for social structure.
This book offers new perspectives on age and ageing by combining
achievements in the biological sciences and their different
applications and interpretations in demography, anthropology,
psychology and other pertinent disciplines. Thirty contributors
from these various fields revisit the measures and the biological
models of ageing, the borderline between normal and pathological
ageing, the pertinence of chronological age as a benchmark along
the life course, its interrelations with psychological development,
with reproductive phases and other life events, the « normalizing
role ascribed by age classes and the risk of falling into ageism,
the cross-cultural diversity and temporal changes of its meanings,
the gender divide (real and perceived), as well as the rights that
should be enjoyed at each age.
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