Seductive solutions, inspiration, easy-to-remember phrases, and ambiguity.: Why is the idea of active ageing so successful?

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321361618_SELECTED_CONTEMPORARY_CHALLENGES_OF_AGEING_POLICY" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321361618_SELECTED_CONTEMPORARY_CHALLENGES_OF_AGEING_POLICY</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/9788380840911.1" target="_blank" >10.24917/9788380840911.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Seductive solutions, inspiration, easy-to-remember phrases, and ambiguity.: Why is the idea of active ageing so successful?

Original language description

The idea of active ageing has become one of the most influential perspectives in modern gerontology, social work, and social policy. This paper discusses factors that helped to establish active ageing as a successful theoretical concept that has significantly influenced contemporary social representations of ageing and has a practical impact on social work and policy. The perspective of the philosophy of social science is employed to explain what makes the idea of active ageing so attractive despite the remaining confusions concerning what “activity” and “ageing actively” means. The aim of the paper is to answer the following question: What makes the concept of active ageing so successful? It draws upon the work of Murray Davis (1986) and her insight into the key aspects that make sociological theory “seductive.” The paper analyses in what ways the concept of active ageing fulfils the specific features that, according to Davis, determine the success of social theories. Simultaneously, the paper critically evaluates the ways the idea of active ageing is translated into ageing policy. The case of Czech Republic is used to illustrate the problematic aspect of active ageing policies as well as the specific rhetoric that makes the idea of active ageing so attractive for a broad spectrum of disciplines as well as for social policy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-09399P" target="_blank" >GP13-09399P: Practices and meanings of grandparenting in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Selected Contemporary Challenges of Ageing Policy

ISBN

978-83-941568-7-9

Number of pages of the result

19

Pages from-to

7-25

Number of pages of the book

256

Publisher name

Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie

Place of publication

Krakow

UT code for WoS chapter

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