Life Course and Society
Published on 1. May 2018
131 pages
978-1-5361-3849-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the concept of key concepts, theories and practices related to life course issues associated with social work, power and trust in contemporary society. The book begins by narrating how aging studies has been colonized by biomedical conceptualizations, which have masked a social understanding of how aging and life course are socially constituted.The book explores the power of an aging society with populational increases and impacts on different parts of the world. As a healthy corrective to most texts on aging and life course, the book explores the work of Foucault and applicability of power relationships to understand and investigate social aspects of aging. The book then moves to the concept of a narrative and its relationship to life course and the social construction of identity.
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Jason L. Powell
Life Course and Society
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07/2018
Nova Science Publishers Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Chapter 1
- Introduction: The Dominance of Biomedicine and Colonisisation of Life Course
- The Bio-Medical Model: Biological and Psychological Aging - Science of Aging?
- The Dark Side of Bio-Medical Assumptions
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2
- The Global Context of Aging
- Introduction
- Global Aging
- Americas
- Europe
- Africa
- Chapter 3
- Age, Professional Power and Social Policy in the United Kingdom
- The Disciplinary Focus of Old Age
- Functionalist Analysis of Old Age
- Political Economy of Old Age
- Feminization of Old Age
- Foucault and Old Age: A New Domain of Theorizing Aging
- Introducing Foucauldian Gerontology
- A History of the Present: The Rise of Social Work with Older People
- From Social Work to Care Management
- Social Policy for Older People in the United Kingdom
- A Foucauldian Analysis of Social Policy for Older People: The Case of the NHS and Community Care Act
- The Foucauldian Notion of Governmentality
- Examples of Implementing Policy and Practice for Older People
- Chapter 4
- Aging, Foucault and the Life Course
- Introduction
- The Power of Michel Foucault
- Modern Social Work in England
- Social Work and Surveillance
- Social Work, Power and Discretion
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- Trust, the Life Course and Social Relations
- Navigating the Conceptual Complexity of Trust
- Trust: Individuals, Organisations, Community and Systems
- Implications of Trust in Health and Social Care
- Linking Professional Authority with Trust and Governmentality
- Constructing Professional Authority Through Governmentality
- Conclusion
- Neoliberalism, Aging, and the Family
- Social Democracy, Aging, and the Family
- "Grand-Parenting" Policy
- Towards Diverse Narrative Streams?
- Conclusion
- References
- Author's Contact Information
- Index
- Blank Page
