Overview
- Offers a unique look into how temporality, technology, normativity, and empiricism structure the symbolic side of globalization
- Expands current debates about globalization and aging by helping readers see social imagery behind globalization and at forefront of the aging experience
- Includes entirely new topics as well as updates of past debates
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 7)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John W. Murphy is professor of sociology at the University of Miami. He received his doctoral degree in 1981 from Ohio State University. His research interests are sociological theory, social philosophy, and globalization. He has published books related to the community mental health movement, the computerization of social service agencies, and contemporary social theory.
Steven L. Arxer is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Texas at Dallas. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Florida. He has published papers in the journals of Humanity & Society and Qualitative Sociology Review and has contributed to several edited volumes. His research interests are globalization, NGOs, and gender mainstreaming.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging
Editors: Steven L. Arxer, John W. Murphy
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4508-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4507-4Published: 14 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9075-4Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4508-1Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 170
Topics: Aging, Social Policy, Public Health, Sociology, general