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Ageing, narrative and identity : new qualitative social research / by Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK, Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK.

By: Hubble, Nick, 1965- [author.]Contributor(s): Tew, Philip [author.]Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: ix, 221 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230390935 (hardback)Subject(s): Older people -- Public opinion -- Great Britain | Old age in literature | Older people -- Great Britain -- Psychology | Aging -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Identity (Psychology) | Narrative inquiry (Research method) -- Great Britain | Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology | Qualitative researchDDC classification: 305.26 LOC classification: HQ1064.G7 | H83 2013Other classification: FAM005000 | SOC025000 | SOC026000 | SOC052000 Online resources: Cover image
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: CONTEXTS AND METHODOLOGIES -- 1. The Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP) -- 2. Everyday Life, Self-narrative and Identity -- PART II: MASS OBSERVATION AND AGEING -- 3. Mass Observation and the University of the Third Age -- 4. Understanding Third and Fourth Age Subjectivity from Mass Observation Responses -- 5. Responses to the Mass Observation Ageing Directives: Five Case Studies -- PART III: READERS, WRITERS AND AGEING -- 6. Representations of Ageing in Post-war British Fiction -- 7. The Reading Diaries: Four Case Studies -- 8. The Role of Narrative Representation and Exchange in How Older People Understand Ageing -- 9. The Specific Attitudes of Writers to Ageing.
Summary: "Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP), led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. In investigating how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing, the study demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency. This book will therefore be of interest not only to students and researchers in the growing interdisciplinary field of Ageing Studies, but also to those with interests in Social Policy, Social Narrative and wider socio-cultural conceptions of the interaction between representation and everyday life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Ageing, Narrative and Identity: New Qualitative Social Research outlines the methodology and results of the Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP), led by a research team from Brunel University, UK. In investigating how older people resist stereotypical cultural representations of ageing, the study demonstrates the importance of narrative understanding to social agency. This book will therefore be of interest not only to students and researchers in the growing interdisciplinary field of Ageing Studies, but also to those with interests in Social Policy, Social Narrative and wider socio-cultural conceptions of the interaction between representation and everyday life"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: CONTEXTS AND METHODOLOGIES -- 1. The Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing Project (FCMAP) -- 2. Everyday Life, Self-narrative and Identity -- PART II: MASS OBSERVATION AND AGEING -- 3. Mass Observation and the University of the Third Age -- 4. Understanding Third and Fourth Age Subjectivity from Mass Observation Responses -- 5. Responses to the Mass Observation Ageing Directives: Five Case Studies -- PART III: READERS, WRITERS AND AGEING -- 6. Representations of Ageing in Post-war British Fiction -- 7. The Reading Diaries: Four Case Studies -- 8. The Role of Narrative Representation and Exchange in How Older People Understand Ageing -- 9. The Specific Attitudes of Writers to Ageing.