Social theory and aging

"Social Theory and Aging is a new work that explores both conceptual and theoretical issues that impinge on our understanding of aging in postmodern society. Jason L. Powell analyzes how knowledge formation of aging is socially constructed and positioned by powerful assumptions that are often taken for granted. He demonstrates how assumptions of aging have provided a power and knowledge base for bio-medical disciplines, the legitimacy of political economic discourses, and practices of professional experts, and questions these suppositions by introducing modernist scientific models and theories of gerontology as well as mapping out alternative postmodern deconstructions of aging."--Jacket.