Expanding the gerontological imagination on ethnicity: conceptual and theoretical perspectives
Expanding the gerontological imagination on ethnicity: conceptual and theoretical perspectives
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x14001330
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发表时间：
2015-05-01
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2.5
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Torres, Sandra
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作者：
Torres, Sandra
国际移民的全球化增加了西方世界大多数老龄人口的种族多样性。这对老年学研究、政策和实践都有影响，并使我们对种族的理解受到考验。本文介绍了不同的视角，告知种族奖学金（本质主义/原始的角度，结构主义/环境主义的角度和社会建构主义），并建议，我们认为种族的方式有影响如何老年学研究的设计，如何制定老年政策和老年实践是如何形成的。本文通过对当代老年学主要期刊上发表的关于种族问题的研究进行回顾，讨论了所观察到的一些趋势，并得出结论，大多数研究似乎受到本质主义和结构主义的影响。这表明，关于种族的老年学想象力还没有被种族奖学金的最新发展所告知。因此，该文件敦促老年学家，以扩大他们的种族的理解，并建议，如果我们让社会建构主义的种族和概念的交叉性的灵感来源，老年学的想象力种族的角度来看，可以得到很多。
The globalisation of international migration has increased the ethnic diversity of most ageing populations across the Western world. This has implications for gerontological research, policy and practice, and puts our understandings of ethnicity to the test. This paper presents the different perspectives that inform ethnicity scholarship (the essentialist/primordial perspective, the structuralist/circumstantialist perspective and social constructionism) and suggests that the way in which we regard ethnicity has implications for how gerontological research is designed, how policies for old age are formulated and how gerontological practice is shaped. Through a review of contemporary gerontological research on ethnicity published in some of gerontology's main journals, the paper discusses some of the trends observed and concludes that most research seems to be informed by essentialism and structuralism. This suggests that the gerontological imagination on ethnicity has yet to be informed by the latest developments in ethnicity scholarship. The paper therefore urges gerontologists to broaden their understanding of ethnicity and suggests that much could be gained if we were to let the social constructionist perspective on ethnicity and the notion of intersectionality be sources of inspiration for the gerontological imagination on ethnicity.