Social Theory and Aging

Chapter 1 The Relationship of Social Theory and Aging: A Critical Exegesis Chapter 2 Occidental Modernity, The Bio-Medical Gaze and Aging Chapter 3 Theorizing Aging: Critical Explorations of Modernist Sociological Approaches Chapter 4 Postmodernism, Culture and Aging Body Chapter 5 The 'Foucault Effect' and Aging: Relations ofPower, Surveillance and Governmentality Chapter 6 Aging in the 'Risk Society' Chapter 7 Conclusion: Reconstructions of Aging