Old Age

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By: John Vincent

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Hardcover | 23 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Recent decades have seen a fundamental change in the age structure of many western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to exceed eighty years old. This book provides an overview of the key issues arising from this demographic change, asking questions such as: What if any, are the universal characteristics of the ageing experience? What different ways is it possible to grow old? What is unique about old age in the contemporary world? The author also examines issues ranging from the social construction, diversity and identity of old age to areas of social conflict over population, pensions and the medicalisation of old age. John Vincent is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter.

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List of illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Key questions	p. 1
The experience of old age	p. 6
The social construction of old age	p. 7
Social regulation of age in Britain	p. 7
The importance of pensions in establishing the modern category 'old age'	p. 9
Social cues to old age	p. 12
A cross-cultural comparison of the construction of old age	p. 14
Standard of living and quality of life in old age	p. 16
Women and widows	p. 23
Expectations of old age	p. 24
The succession of generations	p. 31
Social groups based on age	p. 31
What do we mean by generation?	p. 33
Generation, community and inequality	p. 34
The changing experience of different historical cohorts	p. 40
The interaction of generational expectations	p. 46
Generations and social change	p. 49
The social solidarity of generations	p. 51
Global crises and old age	p. 54
What is globalisation, how might it impact on old age?	p. 54
Older people and poverty	p. 56
Old age: population and environmental crises	p. 64
Is there a global demographic crisis?	p. 70
Conclusion: older people in an unequal world	p. 76
Old age, equity and intergenerational conflict?	p. 79
The demographic crisis and national pension schemes	p. 79
The issue is not demographic--the manufacture of a crisis	p. 83
Globalisation and the nation state, implications for welfare	p. 86
Globalisation and the growth of pensions as a force in world financial markets	p. 90
Problems with the economic arguments for pension fund capitalism	p. 95
Old age and the power of capital	p. 105
Consumerism, identity and old age	p. 109
Old age and identity	p. 109
Diversity in old age	p. 112
Identity and life history	p. 118
Consumption and identity	p. 121
Choice, identity and old age	p. 128
Old age, sickness, death and immortality	p. 131
Knowledge of ageing and death	p. 131
Ageing as the subject of biological science	p. 132
The medicalisation of old age	p. 138
Avoiding old age	p. 143
Individualism and sociology of body	p. 154
Old age and death	p. 157
Conclusion: old age and ageism	p. 164
Liberation of old age	p. 164
Notes	p. 170
Index	p. 185
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