Researching Social Gerontology: Concepts, Methods and Issues
Editat de Sheila Peaceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 1990
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803982857
ISBN-10: 0803982852
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0803982852
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
`will be of value to all who have a concern with the ageing process' - Journal of the Institute of Health Education`(a) highly interesting collection of essays... Given the desire to reach as wide a multi-disciplinary audience as possible it is commendably free of gratuitous jargon... intelligent reading and everyone, even someone with a limited knowledge of the field, will find it helpful... This volume contains a formidable amount of information and deserves to be made widely available (not only in libraries and institutions concerned with social gerontology) for its contents have relevance for a wide range of research interests. This volume demonstrates quite vividly that the study of ageing should not be seen as a minority interest having an important, but limited, place among the wider issues of social science. It shows that all the concerns of social investigation are present in the multi-disciplinary field and that the rigour required of research on ageing is no less demanding than that found in other more popular and more generously funded areas of social science... I hope that the British Society of Gerontology will not consider this a `one-off' but will plan to have a further edition in due course or commission other volumes adding to the excellent work contained here' - Journal of Educational Gerontology
`The editor and authors have succeeded in putting their studies, which in many cases are well-known, in a new perspective, making them worthwhile to colleagues.... this is a useful book.' - Age and Ageing
`Every contemporary social gerontologist will want these two books to hand.' - Social Policy and Administration
`The editor and authors have succeeded in putting their studies, which in many cases are well-known, in a new perspective, making them worthwhile to colleagues.... this is a useful book.' - Age and Ageing
`Every contemporary social gerontologist will want these two books to hand.' - Social Policy and Administration
Cuprins
PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT
Age - Bill Bytheway
Dependency - David Wilkin
Social Support - Hazel Qureshi
Quality of Life - Beverley Hughes
PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Whom to Study? Defining the Problem - Graham Fennell
Evaluation Research and Experiment in Social Gerontology - David Challis and Robin Darton
Doing Ethnography in a Geriatric Unit - Eileen Fairhurst
Triangulating Data - Leonie Kellaher, Sheila Peace and Dianne Willcocks
Researching Very Old People - Michael Bury and Anthea Holme
Doing Biographical Research - Brian Gearing and Tim Dant
PART THREE: ISSUES
Research Ethics and Older People - Alan Butler
The Funding of Social Gerontological Research - Margot Jefferys
Making Research Useful and Usable - Avril Osborn and Dianne Willcocks
Age - Bill Bytheway
Dependency - David Wilkin
Social Support - Hazel Qureshi
Quality of Life - Beverley Hughes
PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Whom to Study? Defining the Problem - Graham Fennell
Evaluation Research and Experiment in Social Gerontology - David Challis and Robin Darton
Doing Ethnography in a Geriatric Unit - Eileen Fairhurst
Triangulating Data - Leonie Kellaher, Sheila Peace and Dianne Willcocks
Researching Very Old People - Michael Bury and Anthea Holme
Doing Biographical Research - Brian Gearing and Tim Dant
PART THREE: ISSUES
Research Ethics and Older People - Alan Butler
The Funding of Social Gerontological Research - Margot Jefferys
Making Research Useful and Usable - Avril Osborn and Dianne Willcocks
Descriere
This accessible introduction to key concepts, methods and issues in social gerontological research presents a unique view of the research process by focusing on the relationships between conceptual definition and research methodology and between research, policy and practice.
At a theoretical level, the text draws on the core gerontological concepts of age, dependency, social support and quality of life to illustrate their complexity, and the difficulties of measurement. On a practical level, the contributors present a number of methodological approaches which have been particularly useful in social gerontological research. Finally, they consider three critical issues: whether old people require special ethical consideratio