Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age
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Academic Gerontology
aging studies
Author_Bryan Green
Bryan S. Green
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Constitutive Realism
critical gerontology theory
Deficit Accumulation
discourse analysis
Disengagement Theory
Dispersive Pressure
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Fourth Corner
Gerontological Discourse
Harris's Dictionary
Harris’s Dictionary
Key Words
Language Games
linguistic analysis of aging discourse
master
Master Categories
Meaning Spaces
Membership Knowledge
Objectification Devices
Performative Requirements
policy implications aging
Political Economy Analysis
Political Economy Approach
Political Economy Narratives
Progressive Disease
Public Administration
Readable Technologies
Robert G. Blundo
Roberta R. Greene
Semantic Information
semiotic
Semiotic Square
social constructionism
Social Gerontology
square
Super Structure
textual analysis methods
Product details
- ISBN 9780202304502
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of study and practice. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age applies the methods of discourse analysis and textual analysis to texts and documents in this newly evolved and eclectic fi eld. Green explores and identifies the literary methods and discursive regularities through which aging and the aged have been made into objects of study and treatment, and which together form a mode of knowledge production that will infl uence future texts in the field.Because such formats of representation limit rational diagnoses of problems and rational courses of ameliorative action, policy implications in the fi eld of gerontology are a major interest of this study. Another interest is methodological. Within the broader constructionist approach to social reality, Green takes the position of constitutive realism: the notion that social reality is linguistically constructed, primarily in speech and writing.The book's two aims are to describe analytically the fi eld of gerontology. The field is important both for its growing academic presence and for its practical eff ects on discourse and policy concerning old age. It also hopes to help develop possibilities of inquiry associated with the linguistic, literary, and rhetorical turns of social science in recent years. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age is a substantive investigation, at considerable theoretical depth, of gerontology itself, as well as a methodological treatise with broader implications for social science as it focuses upon the discourse of various professional fields.
