Growing Up and Growing Old by Jenny Hockey

Growing Up and Growing Old by Jenny Hockey

Ranging across disciplinary boundaries, this book analyzes metaphors of dependency in differing contexts - the body, the family, work and leisure. Combining a robustly critical analysis with breadth of interdisciplinary sweep, Growing Up and Growing Old challenges the stigmatizing role that stereotypes can play in the lives of particular groups of people.

`Readers whose ambition is limited to being told answers will find the book useful: readers who use books to find the questions that will sharpen understanding of their own experience and practice should find it and its excellent bibliography a real stimulus to rethinkingApproached with an open mind, reading it could even, as its authors intended, provide them with a liminal opportunity for beneficial structural change′ - Journal of Biosocial Science

`This is an interesting book, and the themes are important and well exemplified. On a policy level, the authors are clear and reasonable′ - Contemporary Sociology

`Hockey and James explore and chart new territory in a stimulating and well-structured book. They introduce and summarise each stage of the argument logically, discuss analytical concepts and, by throrough documentation of experiences and examples, develop and reinforce the understanding of infantalisation processes, which they consider necessary to the achievement of change... The authors succeed in their aim of exploring issues and provide a promising basis for further empirical studies in this developing field. The book will be useful mainly to sociologists and social anthropologists, particularly students, researchers and teachers of social germontology, childhood and the life course. It may also interest policy makers and those involved in caring for dependent adults′ - Sociology

`This very interesting volume examines the parallels between the dependency and powerlessness experienced in childhood and that experienced in later life, especially by those who live in residential care... Studies of the social aspects of ageing having been empirically rather than theoretically driven. This book offers a much needed change of perspective by examining important constructs such as dependency and independence which inform our experience of growing up and growing old. This stimulating book looks critically at the stigmatizing role that stereotypes play in the lives of particular groups, especially older people. For those interested in ageing, sociology, anthropology and issues relating to the analysis of the life course this is a very interesting and worthwhile read′ - Medical Sociology News

Allison James is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield where she is also co-director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth.

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ISBN 13	9780803988330
ISBN 10	0803988338
Title	Growing Up and Growing Old
Author	Jenny Hockey
Series	Life Course Studies Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	1993-02-08
Number of pages	208
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