Theorizing Gerontology: The Case of Old Age, Professional Power, and Social Policy in the United Kingdom
Theorizing Gerontology: The Case of Old Age, Professional Power, and Social Policy in the United Kingdom
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老年学理论化：英国老年、职业权力和社会政策的案例
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10.1023/a:1011308231981
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2001
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J. Powell
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J. Powell
本文探讨了老年、职业权力和社会政策之间的相互关系。特别是，回顾了社会老年学的主流理论模型，并提出了理解社会老年学问题的替代框架——福柯老年学。福柯的叙述被用来描述专业社会工作和英国最近针对老年人的社会政策之间的历史关系。此外，用于检验身份形成、专业实践和政策叙述的福柯框架丰富和拓宽了老龄化研究理论化的学科主题。本文的结构分为三个部分：老龄化理论回顾，介绍福柯对老年学分析的潜在贡献；利用福柯（1977）谱系方法回顾现代性中专业干预的兴起以及老年人角色和责任的变化；以及福柯治理性关键概念（1977；Rose & Miller，1992）在社会政策分析中的探索和应用。对于老年人。
This article examines the interrelationship between old age, professional power, and social policy. In particular, dominant theoretical models in social gerontology are reviewed and an alternative framework for understanding social gerontological issues—Foucauldian gerontology—is advanced. Foucauldian narratives are employed to delineate the historical relationship between professional social work and recent social policy for older people in the United Kingdom. In addition, a Foucauldian framework employed to examine identity formation, professional practices, and policy narratives enriches and widens the disciplinary subject matter of theorizing aging studies. The structure of this article is in three parts: review of theories of aging with an introduction of Foucault's potential contribution to gerontological analysis, the historical overview of the instigation of professional intervention in modernity and the changing roles and responsibilities in relation to older people utilizing Foucault's (1977) genealogical method, and the exploration and application of Foucault's key notion of governmentality (1977; Rose & Miller, 1992) in the analysis of social policy for older people.