Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Infantilization as Social Discourse -- Constructing Personhood -- Changing Categories of the Child -- Young at Heart -- Dependency, Family and Community -- The Making and Sustaining of Marginality -- Weakness and Power
Summary
Analyzes critically how fundamental concepts of dependency and independence are perpetuated by the structured nature of the individual's life course in western cultures - childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. It demonstrates the power, and the limits, of social constructions of ageing
