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Unmasking Age: The Significance of Age for Social Research de Bill Bytheway

Unmasking Age: The Significance of Age for Social Research

Autor Bill Bytheway
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iun 2011
What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. 'Unmasking Age' addresses it using data from a series of research projects relating to later life. This is supplemented by material from a range of other sources including diaries and fiction. Drawing on a long career in social research, Bill Bytheway critically examines various methods and discusses ways of uncovering the realities of age.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847426185
ISBN-10: 1847426182
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Recenzii

This book’s breadth reflects the richness of a senior social gerontologist’sresearch, productively combining quantitatively-based accounts with diaries andfiction. Jenny Hockey, University of Sheffield

The lived experience of ageing is the centerpiece of this valuable book. Extracts from interviews, diaries, letters, and novels provide for richly textured discussions of the many meanings of age, becoming older, and being old. Fine reading, indeed! Jay Gubrium, University of Missouri, USA

 “Bytheway reviews his research, which spans four decades, to explore the dynamic process of aging rather than the more static notion of age as an unchanging construct. In this way, Bytheway seeks to ‘unmask’ age by exploring how aging subjects reflect upon their lives as they live them. He offers numerous details and examples of his work that uses rich data from diaries, fiction, demography, and market research to provide a nuanced and accessible review of how his interaction with the subject has evolved over time.”--Choice

Notă biografică

Bill Bytheway, Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University

Cuprins

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements

1. Introducing age
Background
The concept of 'age'
Featured research
The chapters that follow
2. Researching age
Research in gerontology
research methods
How old are you?
3. Age and time
Timescapes
Everyday life
Biography and history
The seasons
Returning
4. Representations of age
Words
Images
Representation
5. Growing older in an ageing body
Experience
The sight of the body
Birthdays
Transformations
6. Being older
Parents and children
Siblings
Couples
Networks
Succession
7. A great age
A centenarian
Approaching a 100th birthday
8. The ageing population
Age groups and generations
Age as a variable
Chronological age and mortality
Demographic statistics
Living alone
Bureaucracy
9. Gerontologists and older people
Reacting to need
Older people and involuntary retirement
The disintegration of age-related social worlds
10. Getting real
Behind the mask
Relations, groups and divisions
Social research
Theorising age

Postscript
Notes
Appendix
References
Index