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The Gerontological Imagination - An Integrative Paradigm of Aging (Paperback)
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The Gerontological Imagination - An Integrative Paradigm of Aging (Paperback)
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The scientific study of aging is a relatively nascent field of
inquiry. Although philosophic and literary reflections on what it
means to grow older appear in the earliest historical records, the
systematic study of aging began in earnest about a century ago.
Scholarly interest in the topic has accelerated in recent decades,
due in part to rapid population aging in developed nations. As a
result, the study of aging has been incorporated into many
disciplines, emphasizing concepts, theories, and methods to
elucidate the antecedents and consequences of growing older.
Although each discipline has key concepts and empirical
generalizations about aging, there is little agreement across
disciplines about the intellectual core of gerontology. Each
discipline brings its own intellectual heritage and perspective to
the study of aging, but the question posed by author Ken Ferraro is
whether there is an emergent perspective or way of thinking about
aging that transcends the disciplines. Biologists, psychologists,
and sociologists may claim an interest in gerontology, but do they
have a common image of aging or a set of principles to guide their
research? Do they share a paradigm-a fundamental image of
aging-that incorporates concepts and empirical generalizations from
multiple disciplines? And when disciplinary approaches to
gerontology clash, which approach or conceptualization of aging is
likely to emerge as part of the paradigm? Although biologists,
psychologists, and social scientists share an interest in the study
of aging, they are distinctive in how they conduct their research.
The Gerontological Imagination provides an integrative paradigm of
aging that makes it the first book to identify intellectual common
ground among scholars studying aging. Ferraro identifies an
underlying set of principles that constitute a paradigm for the
study of aging: causality, life course analysis, multifaceted
change, heterogeneity, accumulation processes, and ageism. The
proposed paradigm provides an efficient way to identify and
interpret essential ideas, findings, models, and theories across
multiple disciplines that study aging.
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