Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge (Knowledge, Disciplinarity and Beyond) - Softcover

Katz, Stephen

 
9780813916620: Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge (Knowledge, Disciplinarity and Beyond)
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ISBN 10: 0813916623 ISBN 13: 9780813916620
Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1996

Synopsis

In Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and the Althusser in his analysis of what he calls the "gerontological web."

Katz explores how political and social sciences have differentiated the elderly as a special kind of population characterized in negative terms, and he examines the literature of the discipline and shows how gerontology as built itself as a discipline through its journals, associations, funding agencies, and "schools of thought."

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About the Author

Stephen Katz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of Marxism, Africa and Social Class: A Critique of Relevant Theories.

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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813916623
ISBN 13 
9780813916620
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
209

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