Ageing, insight and wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse (Ageing and the Lifecourse) - Brossura

Edmondson, Ricca

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847425593 ISBN 13: 9781847425591

Casa editrice: Policy Press, 2015

Riassunto

Taking a novel approach to aging, this book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities, and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating and rich. Ricca Edmondson explores what creating meaning in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how older people are conceptualized, and for relationships between generations. Offering a language for discussing types and issues of lifecourse meaning, including those concerning the ethical and temporal ways older people interpret their experiences, form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and offer wisdom, Ageing, Insight and Wisdom will appeal to scholars of gerontology, sociological methodology, humanistic sociology, philosophy, psychology, and health promotion and medicine.

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Ricca Edmondson is professor of political science and sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Ricca Edmondson (died June 2021) was Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. After studying philosophy at the University of Lancaster and writing her D.Phil. at Oxford on reasoning in the social sciences, she carried out research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She then joined the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, specialising in interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to life-course meaning and wisdom, and their history, landscapes and social settings.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847425593
• ISBN 13: 9781847425591
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile