This book explores both conceptual and theoretical issues that
impinge on understanding aging in (post) modern society. It
analyses how knowledge formation of aging, with particular
reference to 'old age' in contemporary western society, is socially
constituted and positioned by powerful 'taken for granted
assumptions'. These assumptions have provided a power/knowledge
base for bio-medical disciplines, legitimacy of political-economic
discourses and practices of professional experts. The book is in
two parts: the first part introduces 'modernist' scientific models
and theories of gerontology and questions their importance in
mapping out the assumptions of aging and how they impinge on
identity performance in society through disciplinary matrix of
biology, psychology and social conceptualizations of gerontology;
the second part focus upon 'postmodern' constructions aging through
the articulation and development of novel epistemologies:
postmodernism and aging body; discourse and power/knowledge; and
'aging' in the 'risk society'. The book addresses a key question:
can 'meta-theories' provide an effective analysis of aging which is
radically different from modernist 'grand narratives' as epitomized
by not only bio-medical models of aging but also of mainstream
social theories of gerontology.
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