Jan Baars

Long Lives Are for the Rich

Aging, the Life Course, and Social Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Long Lives are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781032492025
• ISBN-10: 1032492023
• Artikelnr.: 67680412

Autorenporträt

Jan Baars is Professor of Humanistic Gerontology at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences and the Humanities at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Jan's previously published books include Aging and the Art of Living and co-edited volumes Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology; Aging, Globalization and Inequality; and Aging and Time: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The neo-liberal turn against a supportive life course and the
US as its tragic champion
Chapter 1. From a supportive to an entrepreneurial organization of the life
course
Chapter 2. Long lives are for the Rich...until this backfires
Chapter 3. Main forms and temporal dynamics of social inequality
Chapter 4. Ageism as a form of social Inequality
Chapter 5. Social inequality: from central concern to its marginalization
Chapter 6. Theories about Social Justice and Equality over the Life Course:
Looking away from Social Inequality
Chapter 7. Social (In)equality over the Life Course: Pitfalls and
Perspectives