The “recent social and scientific interest in age”

Authors

  • Gertrud M. Backes Universität Kassel, Institut für Soziologie und Sozialpädagogik der Lebensalter, Lehrstuhl für Soziale Gerontologie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/337

Keywords:

Alter, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Volume 1 of the Kohlhammer Urban pocket books series “Grundriss Gerontologie” ("Basic course in gerontology”) comprises an introduction into and description of the history of gerontology. A synopsis of today’s social and scientific relevance of gerontology opens the book (chapter 1). It is followed by a rather unusual account of the subject by means of definitions, disciplines and main propositions and results (ch. 2). Chapter 3 outlines the book’s scope from antiquity to the present. The significance of theories for gerontology and the plausible structuring of the many common theories and methods are then elaborated (ch. 4). The book finally concerns itself with describing and critically reviewing fundamental as well as practice-oriented findings of gerontology (chapters 5 and 6) and closes by discussing the “quo vadis” of gerontology (ch. 7).

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Published

2005-07-05

Issue

No. 16 (2005): Alter

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2005 Gertrud M. Backes

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