{"product_id":"social-theory-and-aging-9780742519541","title":"Social Theory and Aging","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book attempts to identify two central areas for the study of aging and the epistemological differences and continuities between them: constructions of aging (modern) and deconstructions of aging (postmodern).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will contribute most significantly to our reinterpretation of aging and how it is thought about in social work… This is a wonderfully welcome addition to the literature on aging. -- Allen Irving, University of Western Ontario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis Chapter 2 Occidental Modernity, The Bio-Medical Gaze and Aging Chapter 3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches Chapter 4 Postmodernism, Culture and Aging Body Chapter 5 The 'Foucault Effect' and Aging: Relations ofPower, Surveillance and Governmentality Chapter 6 Aging in the 'Risk Society' Chapter 7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037574660439,"sku":"9780742519541","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742519541.jpg?v=1750936324","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-theory-and-aging-9780742519541","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}