Overview
- Offers conceptual and theoretical, historical and contemporary interpretations of aging and processes of death such as crime, victimisation, and imprisonment
- Assesses international approaches to aging and death in different countries
- Includes definitions and descriptions of aging experiences within institutions and examples of death for graduate students and researchers
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 35)
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About this book
This book presents a critical analysis and examination of the major theories and social issues in the social construction of aging and death. It is concerned with the impact of death and places how our experiences of death are transformed by the roles that truth and discourse about aging play in everyday life. A major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to construct meaning and purpose for life and death. To accentuate this, the book provides an investigation into the social construction of death practices across time and space. Special attention is given to the notion of death as a socially accomplished phenomenon grounded in a unique sociological introduction to the meaning of death throughout history to the present. The purpose of this book is to critically inform debates concerning the abstract and empirical features of death examined through the lens of sociological perspectives.This book explores the emergent biomedical dominance relating to ageing and death. An alternative is advocated which re-interprets ageing for Graduate schools. This innovative book explores the concept, history and theory of aging and its relationship to death. Traditionally, many books have focused on older people dying of 'natural causes', a biomedical explanatory framework. This book looks at alternative social theories and experiences with aging and relate to death in different countries, victims, crime, imprisonment and institutional care. Are these deaths avoidable? If so, what are the solutions the book addresses. This is one of the first books that re-interprets aging and its relationship of examples of death. It will be of essential reading for graduate students and researchers in understanding these different examples of aging and death across the globe.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jason L. Powell PhD, FRSA, AoU, FInstAM, FCMI, CSBP is Professor and Provost at Crescent College Birmingham. He is an elected Academician of The Academy of Urbanism, and Companion of the Society of Bereavement Practitioners (7 ever in history).
Dr. Powell has interests in interdisciplinary research focusing on ageing, Foucault and social policy. He has held many research and knowledge exchange grants in the UK, EU and Asia and disseminated his research globally with many publications including 70 academic books and top ranked refereed journal articles, ie, The Journal of Applied Gerontology; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; The Canadian Journal of Sociology; and The Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences.
Professor Powell is Editor-in-Chief of Illness, Crisis & Loss (SAGE).
He is also Series Editor, International Perspectives on Aging (Springer Nature).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociology of Aging and Death
Authors: Jason Powell
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19329-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19328-6Published: 26 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19331-6Published: 26 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19329-3Published: 25 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 168
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Demography, Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Social Care