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Ageing, Insight and Wisdom : Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse /
This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes and the types of wisdom they can offer.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- AGEING, INSIGHT AND WISDOM; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Series editor's foreword; Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life; Studying life-course meaning: an interdisciplinary project; Meaning in lived contexts; Developing the argument; 1. Lifecourses, insight and meaning; Meaning in gerontology; Lifetime and insight in gerontological research; Exploring approaches to meaning; 2. Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and 'fading out'; The ambiguity of age-consciousness; The struggle for language; Social hegemony and age; The crisis of ethics
- 3. Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older peopleInsight and the lifecourse in gerontology; A triad of approaches to meaning; Some approaches to listening; Reconstructive ethnography: exposing communicative forms; Conveying meanings in texts; Time and narrative; Meaning, insight and practice; 4. Languages for life-course meanings; Life-course meaning: insight and wisdom; Late-life insight and the human condition: the humanities and artistic production; Mapping meaning in gerontology with work on wisdom; 5. Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction