Cultures of Ageing - Self, Citizen and the Body (Paperback)

For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine aging adulthood.

Cultures of Aging examines age and aging in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology—citizenship, the body and the self.

The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees aging as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America and the need to move the study of aging from social policy towards some of the key issues in contemporary social science.