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The Ages of Life : Living and Aging in Conflict? / ed. by Roberta Maierhofer, Ulla Kriebernegg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aging Studies ; 3Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2014]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783837622126
  • 9783839422120
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  • 305.26 22/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research.The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.
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The binary construction of »young« and »old«, which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research.The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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