Dominant and Competing Paradigms in Gerontology
Towards a Political Economy of Ageing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11199765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carroll L Estes (0000-0003-1704-8097, University of California, San Francisco), Jane Swan (0009-0002-6062-1397, University of California, San Francisco), James H Swan, Lenore E Gerard (University of San Francisco) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-164 |
| Publication date | 1982-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ageing and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0144686x00009405 |
| OpenAlex | W1973686393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 37 |
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 reasons for their centrality in American gerontological thought. The paper concludes with a proposal for an alternative line of inquiry — a political economy of ageing — which takes as problematic the effects of social history, the world economy, capitalism and social class on the ageing process and the aged and the policy interventions designed for them
Capitalism · Centrality · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Psychological intervention · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Prerequisites of an Adequate Theory of Aging
The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing
A Foucauldian Analysis of Old Age and the Power of Social Welfare
Crises and Old Age Policy
The Impact of Life Trajectories on Retirement
Dominant and competing framings of the productive ageing agenda in the Australian policy context
Being, feeling and acting
Making sense of literary aging
Unmaking old age
Public policies and old age identity
The appraisal of difference
Senior coolness”
The challenge of critical gerontology
Aging, place, and the life course of societies
Das Alter
Unanticipated Consequences
Neoliberalism and health care
Disability in the Colombian Peace Processes of the 21st Century
Personal Trouble or Public Issue? Towards a Model of Policy for People with Physical and Mental Disabilities
Ageing and Flexibilisation. Caveats or Challenges for the Welfare State
Reorienting vitality for ageing cities
On defining ageism
Economic Dependency in the 1980s
Women's Perspectives on Informal Care of the Elderly
Critical Perspectives on Ageing
An Alternative Perspective on Retirement a Dual Economic Approach
The Social Production of Old Age
Ageing as a Challenge for Sociological Theory
Institutionalisation
The Politics of Ageing in America
Forum
Adref
Policy intellectuals, class struggle and the construction of old age
The social impact of aging populations
Cultural problems of ageing especially regarding gender and intergenerational equity
Classes in contemporary capitalism
Class, crisis, and the state
Between labor and capital
The Aging Enterprise Revisited
Class, Capital and Social Policy
The Fiscal Crisis of the State
The Political Economy of the Welfare State
The class structure of the advanced societies.
The social construction of reality
The coming crisis of western sociology
Handbook of aging and the social sciences
Poverty in the United Kingdom
Poverty in the United Kingdom
The Aged in the Welfare State.
Interest-Group Liberalism and the Politics of Aging
Urban Political Economy
The Structured Dependency of the Elderly
Towards a Political Economy of Old Age
The Social Organization of Health
Old Age and the Welfare State
Stratification Among the Aged
Ageism
Old age and the welfare state
The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
Organizational Transformation
Status Attainment and Status Maintenance
Old Age and Political Behavior
Political gerontology
The Coming Crisis in Western Sociology
Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of Class Structure
The Political Economy of Health Care
The Social Creation of Poverty and Dependency in Old Age
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2025 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |