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Ageing, diversity and equality: social justice perspectives

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Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagement. Secondly, in terms of thinking about the ‘who’ of inequality, this has so far been limited to a very narrow range of minority populations. Finally, when considering the ‘how’ of inequality, social gerontology’s theoretical analyses remain under-developed. The overall effect of these issues is that social gerontology remains deeply embedded in normative assumptions which serve to exclude a wide range of older people. This book aims to challenge and provoke the above described normativity and offer an alternative approach which highlights the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing.

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Series Title

Routledge advances in sociology

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305.26 WES a

Publisher

enk : ., 2019

Collation

xvi, 376 pages ; 25 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780415786690

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305.26

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Subject(s)

Cross-cultural studies
Equality
Minority older people
Older people

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