Age and the Reach of Sociological Imagination (Aging and Society) by Dannefer, Dale - 2021

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New. The dominant narratives of science as well as popular culture define aging and human development as self-contained individual matters - naturalizing them and failing to recognize their experiential and contextual contingencies. Our understandings of age are then "boxed in" and constricted by assumptions of "normality" and naturalness that limit our capacities to explore possible alternative experiences of development and aging, and the conditions - both individual and social - that might foster such experiences. Combining foundational principles of critical social science with recent breakthroughs in research across disciplines ranging from biology to economics, this book offers a scientifically and humanly expanded landscape for apprehending the life course. It clarifies the organismic fundamentals that make the actual content of experience so centrally important, and it also explores why attention to these fundamentals has been so resisted in studies of… Read More

Routledge, 2021. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.58 inches.

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Routledge, 2021. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.58 inches.

Routledge, 2022. Paperback. New.

Routledge, 2022. Paperback. New.

Routledge, 2021-08-09. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing