Carroll L Estes
Biographic Data
| ID | 316203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carroll L Estes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carroll L |
| FAMILY NAME | Estes |
| SIGNATURE | ESTES C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1704-8097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
The New Political Economy of Aging: Introduction and Critique
A political economy perspective on aging and old age emphasizes the broad implications of economic life for the aged and for society’s treatment of the elderly. The central challenge of the political economy of aging is to understand the character and significance of variations in the treatment of the aged and to relate them to broader societal trends. A major task is to understand how the aging process itself is influenced by the treatment and l…
Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology
This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social network…
Life Course
Life course has been developed as a field of inquiry exploring both individual life experience and collective social processes, with a specific focus on the role of social structure. The field of life course studies encompasses two major analytical frameworks – one focused on how individual lives and cohort dynamics are shaped by experience and social context, and a second focused on society's increasing reliance on age as a principle of social o…
Sex and Gender in the Political Economy of Aging
Inequality and Aging: The Creation of Dependency
Political Economy of Aging: A Theoretical Framework
Crises and Old Age Policy
Factors Associated With Perceived Effectiveness of Local Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs in New York and California
Objectives: Long-term care (LTC) ombudsmen advocate for the health, safety, welfare, and rights of residents in LTC facilities. This article examines factors associated with self-rated effectiveness of local LTC Ombudsman Programs (LTCOPs) in California and New York across the five statutorily mandated activities under the Older Americans Act: complaint investigation, resident/family education, community education, monitoring laws, and policy adv…
Maggie Kuhn: Social theorist of radical gerontology
Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore Maggie Kuhn's theoretical and analytical contributions to social gerontology and more broadly to the advancement of critical and public sociology. Design/methodology/approach This paper is an theoretical exploration of ageing. Maggie Kuhn's and the Gray Panthers theoretical contributions include analyses of, and related to: identity politics, intersectionality, cultural and media studies and the c…
A first generation critic comes of age: Reflections of a critical gerontologist
Social Security Privatization: An Ideologically Structured Movement
We document the cumulative change in expressions of support for Social Security's social insurance ideals to privatization,from the late 1970s through 2007. Social Security's basic structure and principles generally were supported by the United States government and in amendments to the original Act of 1935. However, in the 1980s market arguments began to proliferate in government alongside pension privatization projects by international governme…
Social Security Politics: Ideology and Reform
Our research indicates that one can interpret social policies as well as policy options as sets of values, and these as ideological models. We anticipate that the coherence on one political ideological view (market) and the relative lack of consistency in another (social contract) will be highly consequential for the future of Social Security, U.S. politics, and the public
Women, Ageing and Inequality: A Feminist Perspective
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Social Security privatization and older women: A feminist political economy perspective
The Globalization of Capital, the Welfare State, and Old Age Policy
A new political economy is shaping the lives of present and future generations of older people. The key change has been the move from the mass institutions that defined growing old in the period from 1945 through the late 1970s to the more individualized structures—privatized pensions, privatized health and social care—that increasingly inform the current period. The authors examine the role of international governmental organizations in promotin…
Adding Aging and Gender to the Women's Health Agenda
The complex interaction of medical, social, and economic factors that affect women's wellness as they age requires a new paradigm that bridges the gap between those who are concerned about aging issues and those concerned about women's health. In this article, we begin this endeavor by advancing three interrelated themes: (1) there is a gendered relationship between socioeconomic structures and health over time; (2) there are gender-specific impl…
California Collaborative Center for Substance Abuse Policy Research: A History and Update
The California Collaborative Center for Substance Abuse Policy Research is engaged in policy research, training, and information dissemination on substance abuse policy in and for the state of California. As such it is a cosponsor of the recent Therapeutic Jurisprudence conference with Haight Ashbury Free Clinics. The following recoups a presentation made by Richard B. Seymour on behalf of Center codirector Carroll Estes at that conference on the…
From Gender to the Political Economy of Ageing
In the United States, social policy debate concerning the elderly has, for almost two decades, been permeated by the rhetoric of crisis and attacks on the entitlement programmes that provide the backbone of support for older persons. Based on demographics alone, with older women outliving and outnumbering older men, ageing is appropriately defined as a gender issue and, in important respects, a women’s issue. Corroborating this view, Dr Robert Bu…
Devolution and Aging Policy: Racing to the Bottom in Long-Term Care
For two decades, New Federalism, devolution, and other challenges to the federal role in domestic health and human services policy have fundamentally shaped the structure and delivery of long-term care in the United States. Devolution evokes crucial questions concerning the future of universal entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare and, with them, the future of aging and long-term care policy. This article examines the implicat…
Sociological and Economic Theories of Markets and Nonprofits: Evidence from Home Health Organizations
In this article, data on home health agencies reveal surprisingly few differences between organizations of different tax status (nonprofit vs. forprofit). These findings direclty contradict economic theories of nonprofit organization, as well as third-party government theory from political science. Since ecological theory in sociology proposes a useful explanation for organizational similartities, the authors search for differences between nonpro…
Changes in Aged Populations Served by Home Health Agencies
This article examines changes in clients served by home health agencies, and how changes are related to recent health care trends and local market structure. Two types of explanatory factors are examined: organizational measures and market factors. A theoretical model of isomorphism is tested, considering the effects of privatization within the context of the growth of chains and multifacility systems. Findings show that (a) system members are mo…
Medicalization, public policy and the elderly: Social services in jeopardy
Systemic crisis and the nonprofit sector: Toward a political economy of the nonprofit health and social services sector
The Aging Enterprise Revisited
Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a Political Economy of Ageing
The origins and influence of social science perspectives have conditioned theoretical and empirical developments in the field of gerontology. Yet little systematic examination has been afforded to the role of social science in the production of gerontological knowledge in providing the underlying rationale for American social policy for the aged. This paper examines the dominant U.S. social science perspectives or paradigms and discusses the reas…
Symbolic Interaction and Social Policy Analysis
This paper explores the contribution that interactionist approaches may make to the study and understanding of social policy based on a discussion of: (1) the general orientation of the interactionist line on inquiry and the general assumptions which the theoretical stance makes about the character of the world, (2) the problems that are of primary interest to those who work within this perspective, and (3) the methodological and technical aspect…
Social Security privatization and older women: A feminist political economy perspective
The Politics of Ageing in America
This paper discusses the politics of ageing in the US within a political economy framework. Four forces are shaping US policy: austerity, federalism, deregulation, and the medical-industrial complex. Two major trends in the development of policy are the commodification of the aged and their needs and a class basis for the distribution of benefits, differentiating the deserving elderly from the undeserving elderly. Ideologies of individualism, sel…
Medicalization, public policy and the elderly: Social services in jeopardy
Sociological and Economic Theories of Markets and Nonprofits: Evidence from Home Health Organizations
In this article, data on home health agencies reveal surprisingly few differences between organizations of different tax status (nonprofit vs. forprofit). These findings direclty contradict economic theories of nonprofit organization, as well as third-party government theory from political science. Since ecological theory in sociology proposes a useful explanation for organizational similartities, the authors search for differences between nonpro…
Fiscal Crisis, Deinstitutionalization, and the Elderly
Social Security Politics: Ideology and Reform
Our research indicates that one can interpret social policies as well as policy options as sets of values, and these as ideological models. We anticipate that the coherence on one political ideological view (market) and the relative lack of consistency in another (social contract) will be highly consequential for the future of Social Security, U.S. politics, and the public
A first generation critic comes of age: Reflections of a critical gerontologist
Gender, Public Policy and the Oldest Old
Those 85 years of age and older are the fastest growing subpopulation in the United States. Because they represent a very small proportion of the population (just 1% in 1980), the oldest old have not been studied until recently. Much of the interest in this group is related to their growth (over 50% per decade in the past 50 years) coupled with their disproportionate use of public resources, particularly health and social services. Women are stri…
Political gerontology
Maggie Kuhn: Social theorist of radical gerontology
Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore Maggie Kuhn's theoretical and analytical contributions to social gerontology and more broadly to the advancement of critical and public sociology. Design/methodology/approach This paper is an theoretical exploration of ageing. Maggie Kuhn's and the Gray Panthers theoretical contributions include analyses of, and related to: identity politics, intersectionality, cultural and media studies and the c…
Systemic crisis and the nonprofit sector: Toward a political economy of the nonprofit health and social services sector
Community mental health services and the elderly: Retrenchment or expansion
Social Policy and Sociology
Political gerontology
Constructions of Reality
This paper examines the perspectives and practice orientations of professionals influential in local policy making and service delivery for the aged. A study of staff and members of community planning agencies for the elderly reveals that the majority of professionals perceive problems of the aged to be social structural in origin, yet the most influential and expert respondents were more likely to perceive the problems as individually generated …
The Aging Enterprise
The Aging Enterprise
Fiscal Crisis, Deinstitutionalization, and the Elderly
Symbolic Interaction and Social Policy Analysis
This paper explores the contribution that interactionist approaches may make to the study and understanding of social policy based on a discussion of: (1) the general orientation of the interactionist line on inquiry and the general assumptions which the theoretical stance makes about the character of the world, (2) the problems that are of primary interest to those who work within this perspective, and (3) the methodological and technical aspect…
Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology: Towards a Political Economy of Ageing
The origins and influence of social science perspectives have conditioned theoretical and empirical developments in the field of gerontology. Yet little systematic examination has been afforded to the role of social science in the production of gerontological knowledge in providing the underlying rationale for American social policy for the aged. This paper examines the dominant U.S. social science perspectives or paradigms and discusses the reas…
New Federalism and Health Policy
The making of health policy in the United States is a complex process that involves the private and public sectors, including multiple levels of government. Five characteristics of the policy process are identified, which establish the means by which policies are formulated and which affect the nature of the policies that emerge. These characteristics include (1) the relationship of the government to the private sector; (2) the distribution of au…
Fiscal Austerity and Aging: Shifting Government Responsibility for the Elderly
The authors draw on the work they have done for a major research centre, in order to assess both the shifts in policy towards the elderly which have been wrought by the austerity politics of the 1980s, and the likely long-term impact of such changes. The views taken of older people, the history of public policy toward the aged, the shifting responsibility between state and federal government are discussed
The Aging Enterprise: In Whose Interests?
This paper revisits the aging enterprise in the context of the new competitive business ideology. Public policy has created an aging enterprise that assures that the needs of the aged will be processed and treated as a commodity. The medical-industrial complex, which comprises the most significant part of the aging enterprise, is a primary beneficiary of the recent reformulation of values and expectations vis-a-vis the state and the private secto…
The Politics of Ageing in America
This paper discusses the politics of ageing in the US within a political economy framework. Four forces are shaping US policy: austerity, federalism, deregulation, and the medical-industrial complex. Two major trends in the development of policy are the commodification of the aged and their needs and a class basis for the distribution of benefits, differentiating the deserving elderly from the undeserving elderly. Ideologies of individualism, sel…
Long-Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues
Community mental health services and the elderly: Retrenchment or expansion
The Changing Role of Private Foundations: Business as Usual or Creative Innovation
This paper examines the role of private foundation support for health and human services for the elderly. Findings from a telephone survey of 265 foundations on the impact of public policy changes since 1981 on foundations and nonprofit organiza tions indicate that while foundations are "filling in" for government funding cut- backs, their grants are not innovative
Unsettled Future: Older Women—Economics and Health
Gender, Public Policy and the Oldest Old
Those 85 years of age and older are the fastest growing subpopulation in the United States. Because they represent a very small proportion of the population (just 1% in 1980), the oldest old have not been studied until recently. Much of the interest in this group is related to their growth (over 50% per decade in the past 50 years) coupled with their disproportionate use of public resources, particularly health and social services. Women are stri…
The Biomedicalization of Aging: Dangers and Dilemmas
Medicine, with its focus on individual organic pathology and interventions, has become a powerful and pervasive force in the definition and treatment of aging. The resulting "biomedicalization of aging" socially constructs old age as a process of decremental physical decline and places aging under the domain and control of biomedicine. This paper examines the effects of medicalization on the scientific enterprise and development of the knowledge …
The Unravelling of the Nonprofit Service Sector in the U.S
In the mid 1980s, amidst a massive restructuring of U.S. capital and a retrenchment of the welfare state, little attention has been paid to the ill‐defined “nonprofit” or “voluntary” service sector in the American economy. The Filer Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs characterised it in 1975 in the following way
Geriatric services: Community mental health center boon or bane
Health policy for the elderly
Changes in Aged Populations Served by Home Health Agencies
This article examines changes in clients served by home health agencies, and how changes are related to recent health care trends and local market structure. Two types of explanatory factors are examined: organizational measures and market factors. A theoretical model of isomorphism is tested, considering the effects of privatization within the context of the growth of chains and multifacility systems. Findings show that (a) system members are mo…
Medicalization, public policy and the elderly: Social services in jeopardy
Systemic crisis and the nonprofit sector: Toward a political economy of the nonprofit health and social services sector
Sociological and Economic Theories of Markets and Nonprofits: Evidence from Home Health Organizations
In this article, data on home health agencies reveal surprisingly few differences between organizations of different tax status (nonprofit vs. forprofit). These findings direclty contradict economic theories of nonprofit organization, as well as third-party government theory from political science. Since ecological theory in sociology proposes a useful explanation for organizational similartities, the authors search for differences between nonpro…
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