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The New Sociology of Ageing (Hardcover)
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The New Sociology of Ageing (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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The New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and
opportunities of ageing as a global force. Alongside globalisation,
urbanisation, new technology, climate change, and global pandemics,
ageing is transforming life in the twenty-first century. Through
the eyes of a young sociology student and her multigenerational
family, this book sets out a new sociological framework to
interpret ageing societies. It explores how the 'New Old' - the
baby boomer generation - might be mobilised as an agency of social
change in transforming later life. It proposes this generation as
the co-architects of a new intergenerational social contract for
the era ahead, rather than as the recipients of a post-war
twentieth-century social contract that society can no longer
support. Taking Britain as a case study and societies across the
world as examples, Slattery explores emerging revolutions in work
and retirement, potential crises in pensions, healthcare and
housing, as well as transformations in family life and in our
attitudes to sex and death in later life. This book provides a
clear overview of the sociology of ageing. It introduces students
to demography as a sociological force of the future, and to the
perils and the promises of longevity as societies across the world
approach the Hundred-Year Life. This book will be of interest to
undergraduate students and early scholars in the social sciences,
particularly in sociology, gerontology, social policy, and public
health.
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