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Exploring the origins of a social theory of the body, the theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated in this book through specific case studies. This text continues the arguments of Turner in his book 'The Body and Society'.
Human body --- Social aspects. --- 316.7 --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Social aspects --- 316.4 --- 316.4 Sociale processen --- Sociale processen --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sociological theories --- Sociology of culture --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Body, Human - Social aspects.
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We all have a finite life span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universality of the aging process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. "Images of Aging: Cultural" "Representations of Later Life" changes this. The contributors discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies of today. They address themes such as: body and self image in everyday interaction; experience and identity in old age; advertising and consumer culture images of the elderly; images of aging used by Government agencies in health education campaigns; the diversity of historical representations of the elderly; gender images of aging; images of senility and second childhood; images of health, illness and death. (Bron: covertekst)
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