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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785123203321

Autore

Jarvik Erik <1907->

Titolo

Handbook of aging and the social sciences [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George ; associate editors, Stephen J. Cutler, Jon Hendricks, and James H. Schulz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/AP, 2011

ISBN

1-78539-692-7

1-282-95478-4

9786612954788

1-78034-251-9

0-12-380881-2

Edizione

[7th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Collana

Handbooks of aging

Altri autori (Persone)

BinstockRobert H

GeorgeLinda K

Disciplina

305.26

Soggetti

Aging - Social aspects

Gerontology

Life change events in old age

Older people - Care

Older people - Social conditions - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; About the Editors; Part 1: Theory and Methods; Chapter 1. Age, the Life Course, and the Sociological Imagination: Prospects for Theory; INTRODUCTION: AGE, LIFE COURSE, AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; THE EMERGENCE OF THE LIFE COURSE IN THE STUDY OF AGE; BIOGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE: TWO PARADIGMS OF LIFE COURSE SCHOLARSHIP; STRATEGIES OF EXPLANATION; THE BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE; SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORIES OF AGE AND THE LIFE COURSE AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

SUMMARY: AGE AND THE REACH OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATIONACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Aging, Cohorts, and Methods; INTRODUCTION; EARLY LITERATURE; NEW



DEVELOPMENTS: MODELS, METHODS, AND SUBSTANTIVE RESEARCH; DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH; REFERENCES; Part 2: Aging and Social Structure; Chapter 3. Demography and Aging; INTRODUCTION; POPULATION AGING TRENDS AND UNDERLYING DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE; ALTERNATIVE INDICATORS OF POPULATION AGING; DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF POPULATION AGING; POLICY RESPONSES RELATED TO DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY IS NOT DESTINY; REFERENCES

Chapter 4. Trends in Longevity and Prospects for the FutureINTRODUCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRANSITION; FROM VOLATILITY TO STABILITY IN OUTER REGIONS OF THE LIFESPAN; THE BIOLOGY OF LIFE AND DEATH; FUTURISTS, OPTIMISTS, AND REALISTS; LONGEVITY/MORTALITY "SHOCKS"; THE FUTURE OF HUMAN LONGEVITY; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Disability, Functioning, and Aging; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING AND MEASURING DISABILITY; THE DEMOGRAPHY OF LATE-LIFE DISABILITY; POPULATION TRENDS IN LATE-LIFE DISABILITY; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Global Aging; INTRODUCTION

GLOBAL AGING AND HEALTHWORK, RETIREMENT, AND WEALTH ACCUMULATION IN AN AGING WORLD; FAMILIES, LIVING ARRANGEMENTS, AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS; GLOBAL AGING, POPULATION WELL-BEING, AND FUTURE RESEARCH; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Racial and Ethnic Influences Over the Life Course; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN SOCIOECONOMIC AND HEALTH STATUSES: UNEQUAL TREATMENT AND UNEQUAL OUTCOMES; OBSERVED DIFFERENCES IN AGING AMONG RACE AND ETHNIC GROUPS: MULTIPLE AND INTERSECTING CAUSATION; BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON RACE CATEGORIZATION

THE LAW OF SMALL EFFECTSAGE, PERIOD, AND COHORT INFLUENCES ON RACE AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN AGING: DEFINING THE SOCIAL GROUP; LIFE COURSE, COHORT, AND PERIOD PERSPECTIVES ON RACE AND ETHNIC GROUP DIFFERENCES: THINKING ABOUT THE RACE AND ETHNIC GROUP LIFE COURSE; ELIMINATING RACE AND ETHNIC-BASED AGING DISPARITIES OVER THE LIFE COURSE: ARE THERE CRITICAL POINTS OF INTERVENTION?; CONCLUSIONS: HOW SOCIAL GROUP DESIGNATIONS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY BECOME PHYSICAL REALITIES - A BIO-PSYCHOSOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL FRAMEWORK; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES

Chapter 8. Stratification and Inequality Over the Life Course

Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 7e, summarizes the research literature on the social aspects of aging. The 7e will have 88% new material and authors with 25 chapters: 22 of the chapters will be on completely new topics. Separated into four sections, the fully revised handbook will cover theory and methods, aging and social structure, social factors and social institutions, and aging and society.Contains all the main areas of social science gerontological research in one volumeBegins with a section on theory and methodsEdited by one of the



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155247403321

Autore

Ireni Saban Liza

Titolo

Ethics management in the public service : a sensory-based strategy / / Liza Ireni-Saban and Galit Berdugo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-65252-8

1-317-31332-1

1-317-31333-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 pages)

Collana

Routledge critical studies in public management

Altri autori (Persone)

BerdugoGalit

Disciplina

172/.2

172.2

Soggetti

Public administration - Moral and ethical aspects

Civil service ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ethics management in the public services -- Bildung : Gadamer's hermeneutics and ethics management in the public service -- Understanding through metaphors -- Towards sensory-based strategy for public service ethics -- Sight -- Hearing -- Smell -- Touch -- Taste -- Making sense of American society for public administration (ASPA) code.

Sommario/riassunto

Ethics Management in the Public Service examines the role of sense-making, and highlights how the five senses intersect with ethical discourse.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886099303321

Autore

Delisle Richard G

Titolo

Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology : Deconstructing Darwinism / / edited by Richard G. Delisle, Maurizio Esposito, David Ceccarelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-42629-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (591 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

EspositoMaurizio

CeccarelliDavid

Disciplina

576.8

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology)

Science - History

Biology - Philosophy

Evolutionary Theory

Evolutionary Biology

History of Science

Philosophy of Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Introductory Essays -- Toward a New Historiography -- "Reformist" and "Radical" Historiographies Behind and Beyond the Unity and Disunity of the Evolutionary Thought -- Darwin as a Unifying Figure in Evolutionary Biology: A Meta-Historical Overview -- Part II: Deconstructing Darwinism -- Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing. On “Darwinism” and “Darwinisms”, with Some Disparate Considerations on the History of Science -- The Evolution of “Darwinism”: Up Close and Personal -- Richard Owen’s Deconstruction of Darwinian Natural Selection -- Darwin, Archaeopteryx lithographica and the Problem of Intermediate Species -- Deconstructing Darwinism with Darwin, Mayr, and Gould: Through the Lens of Evolutionary Contingency -- Is Darwinism a Metaphysical Research Program? Analysis and Discussion of Karl Popper’s Position -- Part III: Around and Beyond the Synthesis -- Typology/Population Distinction and Its Role in the Marginalization of 19th-Century Non-Darwinian Theories in



Modern Historiography -- Fisher, Wright and Haldane: Three Philosophical Conceptions of Evolution -- A Synthesis Without Darwin: Unification Attempts in Early Theoretical Biology -- The Strange Story of Mosaic Evolution -- Deconstructing the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: Do We Need a New Theory of Evolution? -- Part IV: Deconstructing the Historiography of Evolutionary Biology -- Deconstructing and Reconstructing the History of Evolutionary Thought: An Agenda for a "Post-Darwinian" Historiography -- What if Darwin Had Published His 1844 Essay? -- Redrawing the Boundaries of Darwinism: Addressing Darwin’s Endorsement of the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics in Darwin’s Celebrations, 1909-1959-2009 -- The “Darwinian Revolution” as a Presentist Discourse: Ideological Implications Beyond the Anglo-Saxon Context -- Historicity, Temporalities and Causality: A Confusion at the Heart of Debates on Darwinism -- Shacking the Tree: Discussing an Evolutionary Icon.

Sommario/riassunto

It is not uncommon to see in major areas of research concerned with science that historical studies are accompanied by the rise of complementary or contradictory historiographies. With time, it seems, scholars discover new approaches to study topics, thus questioning old concepts, traditions, periodizations and historical labels. Apparently, this has not been the case in evolutionary thought. In that area, the main historiographic labels such as Darwinian Revolution, Eclipse of Darwinism, and Modern Synthesis have been in place and largely uncontested for about 50 years. Such labels seem to work as irrefutable, and often hidden, premises of many historical reconstructions, philosophical analyses, and scientific conceptualizations. This volume aims to move beyond this state of affair, opening new thinking avenues by revisiting the traditional historiography and laying the groundwork for establishing a “new historiography” that considers the intertwined threads that compose evolutionary biology. Notably, evolutionary studies seem to have been marked by the tension between unification attempts and the proliferation of approaches, methodologies, and styles of thinking. As the contributors to this volume illustrate, research traditions branched off throughout the history of evolutionary thought, before and after Charles Darwin. The resulting complexity challenges traditional thinking categories, throwing a somewhat different light on a more recent label like the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. More than 40 years after the now classic, The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (1980), edited by Ernst Mayr and William Provine, the contributors to this volume aim to reevaluate where evolutionary biology stands today. .