Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology Gebunden

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively the chapters enrich public debates about the moral cultural and economic questions surrounding aging thereby ameliorating the problems associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap in the gerontological scholarship of the global south that is predominantly descriptive and empirical.Based on original research this volume examines in particular the sociological question of inequalit y and its intersection with age gender health family and social relations. In the process the studies herein highlight the unique historical institutional and social systems that govern the subjective experience of aging in diverse contexts globally. Specifically societies in transition including India Lebanon Nigeria Japan China Israel and in Europe are studied while connecting the micro-social experience of aging (loneliness wellbeing discrimination relationships and resilience) with larger temporal and political contexts. This exercise generates intellectual capital that reformulates links between aging research and policy in innovative ways. Overall the volume echoes the global scientific commitment to understand the socio-cultural process of aging in transitional societies and utilizes rich opportunities for cross-fertilization of ideas disciplines and methods to advance the gerontological promise of critical inquiry training and practice.