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Abstract
The contemporary focus on family policy and old age has become increasingly important in social discourses on aging both within the discipline of Sociology and social policy practices of welfare institutions that attempt to define later life. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, sheds light on wider current trends associated with aging in United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Social welfare is a pivotal domain where social discourses on aging have become located. Narratives are 'played out' with regard to the raw material supplied by family policy for identity performance of older people. Therefore, grounding developments in 'narrativity' provides a sociological framework to assess the changing discourses associated with family policy and older people as advanced through different policy positions.
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Powell, Jason L.
(2005)
"Aging and Family Policy: A Sociological Excursion,"
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 32:
Iss.
2, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.3071
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