Aging without agency: Theorizing the fourth age
Aging without agency: Theorizing the fourth age
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DOI：
10.1080/13607860903228762
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Higgs, P.
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作者：
Gilleard, Chris;Higgs, P.
本文将“第四年龄”视为“老年”碎片化的一种表现。我们认为，第四个年龄出现的制度化的老年体弱对第三年龄文化的出现，否定了过去的代表老年。我们概述了老年的历史边缘化，从早期现代社会到当代的长期护理中的疾病集中，这使得老年成为一个不受欢迎的“社会想象”。随着“老年”从社会世界中消失，我们将其比作“黑洞”扭曲其周围引力场的影响，除了其痕迹之外无法观察到。在这个视角下，第四个时代可以通过考察经验本身而不是它对围绕和定位于它的话语的影响来理解。
This article looks at the "fourth age" as a manifestation of the fragmentation of "old age". We argue that the fourth age emerges from the institutionalization of the infirmities of old age set against the appearance of a third-age culture that negates past representations of old age. We outline the historical marginalization of old age from early modern society to the contemporary concentration of infirmity within long-term care which makes of old age an undesirable "social imaginary". As "old age" fades from the social world, we liken this to the impact of a "black hole" distorting the gravitational field surrounding it, unobservable except for its traces. Within this perspective, the fourth age can be understood by examining not the experience itself but its impact on the discourses that surround and orientate themselves to it.