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03267aam a2200325 i 4500 001 B5D32C72D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 008 170512s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017022990 020 $a 0190665343 020 $a 9780190665340 035 $a (OCoLC)987376230 040 $a DNLM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d NLM $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d XII $d OCLCO $d FYO $d OCLCA $d YBM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 04 $a RC952 F47 2018 100 1 $a Ferraro, Kenneth F. $e author. 245 14 $a The gerontological imagination : $b an integrative paradigm of aging / $c Kenneth F. Ferraro. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 204 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 0 $a The power of the gerontological imagination -- Causality -- Life course analysis -- Multifaceted change -- Heterogeneity -- Accumulation process -- Ageism -- The gerontological imagination at work in scientific communities. 520 $a The scientific study of aging is a relatively nascent field of inquiry. Although philosophic and literary reflections on what it means to grow older appear in the earliest historical records, the systematic study of aging began in earnest about a century ago. Scholarly interest in the topic has accelerated in recent decades, due in part to rapid population aging in developed nations. As a result, the study of aging has been incorporated into many disciplines, emphasing concepts, theories, and methods to elucidate the antecedents and consequences of growing older. Although each discipline has key concepts and empirical generalizations about aging, there is little agreement across disciplines about the intellectual core of gerontology. Each discipline brings its own intellectual heritage and perspective to the study of aging, but the question posed by author Ken Ferraro is whether there is an emergent perspective or way of thinking about aging that transcends the disciplines. Biologists, psychologists, and sociologists may claim an interest in gerontology, but do they have a commom image of aging or a set of principles to guide their research? Do they share a paradigm-- a fundamental image of aging-- that incorporates concepts and empirical generalizations from multiple disciplines? And when disciplinary approaches to gerontology clash, which approach or conceptualization of aging is likely to emerge as part of the paradigm? Although biologists, psychologists, and social scientists share an interest in the study of aging, they are distinctive in how they conduct their research. This book provides an integrative paradigm of aging that makes it the first book to identify intellectual common ground among scholars studying aging. The author identifies an underlying set of principles that constitute a paradigm for the study of aging: causality, life course analysis, multifaceted change, heterogeneity, accumulation process. 650 0 $a Geriatrics. 650 0 $a Aging. 650 0 $a Ageism. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706015651.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B5D32C72D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search