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Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and are Aged through the Life Course

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Pickard, Susan·2016·SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
DOI 10.4135/9781473957800
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Some thoughts on education and political priorities SummaryAlthough we understand some systems well enough to make precise or statistical predictions, most interesting systems -whether physical, mental, cultural, or virtual -are complex, nonlinear, and have properties that emerge from feedback between many interactions.Exhaustive searches of all possibilities are impossible.Unfathomable and unintended consequences dominate.Problems cascade.Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.A growing fraction of the world has made a partial transition from a) small, relatively simple, hierarchical, primitive, zero-sum hunter-gatherer tribes based on superstition (almost total ignorance of complex systems), shared aims, personal exchange and widespread violence, to b) large, relatively complex, decentralised, technological, nonzero-sum market-based cultures based on science (increasingly accurate predictions and control in some fields), diverse aims, impersonal exchange, trade, private property, and (roughly) equal protection under the law.Humans have made transitions from numerology to mathematics, from astrology to astronomy, from alchemy to chemistry, from witchcraft to neuroscience, from tallies to quantum computation.However, while our ancestor chiefs understood bows, horses, and agriculture, our contemporary chiefs (and those in the media responsible for scrutiny of decisions) generally do not understand their equivalents, and are often less experienced in managi…

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  • The construct of age is omnipresent but theoretically underdeveloped in mainstream sociology.

    “The construct of age occupies a curious position in mainstream sociology: It is omnipresent but theoretically underdeveloped.”

    From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Pickard 2016

  • The discipline of sociology lacks full appreciation of the theoretical import of age.

    “I argue that the discipline of sociology lacks full appreciation of the theoretical import of age.”

    From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Pickard 2016

  • Age inequality is at the center of the interdisciplinary field of age studies.

    “Age inequality is at the center of the interdisciplinary field of age studies.”

    From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Pickard 2016

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Authors
Pickard, S.
Corresponding author
Pickard, Susan
ORCID
Pickard, Susan
Venue
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Published
2016
DOI
10.4135/9781473957800
OpenAlex
W2482464320
Cited by
59
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5
FWCI
1.98
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
Licence
public-domain
Locations
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks (publishedVersion, public-domain)
Funders
  • CERN
  • Royal Society
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Chaos, Complexity, and Education
Keywords
aging, life course, sociology of aging, complex systems, nonlinear systems, prediction and control, unintended consequences

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