The ways in which we refer to ages in life, which stem from social constructs, point to shifting boundaries that are effectively socio-cultural demarcations. The nature of boundaries is inherently dual: they are objective and subjective, external and internal, and they are continually erected and reconstructed with shifting socio-historical and cultural contexts and interactions. They are barriers but also gateways. A series of interviews with young unemployed people in training and with elderly people trying to cope with urban transformations shows that one’s age can either be experienced as a dynamic process of change in one’s relationships with oneself, with others and with one’s environment, or as a process of exclusion and social death...
International audienceBased on a study in Burkina Faso on individuals living on the street (who refe...
The creation in France of a dependency benefit, soon replaced by an autonomy allowance specific to s...
The research illustrated in this paper finds space within a broader interest in the social represent...
Transparent Boundaries is an EU project bringing together partners from the UK, Denmark, Greece and ...
This special issue introduces the concept of age-inscription. It accounts for the ways that transiti...
T is paper explores the unique phenomenology of habit and temporality put forth in Beauvoir’s La Vie...
Ageing is a universal phenomenon besides an ascriptive status of an individual. Being continuing pro...
Age is a complex cross-cutting notion for at least two reasons: the intricate interweaving of its bi...
Abstract: The argument of the paper is that modernisation tendencies helped to construct the categor...
Based on the assumption that lifestyles symbolize not only social class but also age, the paper look...
This dissertation examines processes and practices that make certain social categories real in peopl...
International audienceWhen we talk about old age, what are we talking about? Biological age? Intelle...
Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and w...
Les Centres Sociaux des Pays de la Loire, face à l'évolution démographique de leurs territoires, son...
Starting from the perspective that the ageing human body always is a situation and in a situation, t...
International audienceBased on a study in Burkina Faso on individuals living on the street (who refe...
The creation in France of a dependency benefit, soon replaced by an autonomy allowance specific to s...
The research illustrated in this paper finds space within a broader interest in the social represent...
Transparent Boundaries is an EU project bringing together partners from the UK, Denmark, Greece and ...
This special issue introduces the concept of age-inscription. It accounts for the ways that transiti...
T is paper explores the unique phenomenology of habit and temporality put forth in Beauvoir’s La Vie...
Ageing is a universal phenomenon besides an ascriptive status of an individual. Being continuing pro...
Age is a complex cross-cutting notion for at least two reasons: the intricate interweaving of its bi...
Abstract: The argument of the paper is that modernisation tendencies helped to construct the categor...
Based on the assumption that lifestyles symbolize not only social class but also age, the paper look...
This dissertation examines processes and practices that make certain social categories real in peopl...
International audienceWhen we talk about old age, what are we talking about? Biological age? Intelle...
Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ‘age’ is at ‘work’ across society, organizations and w...
Les Centres Sociaux des Pays de la Loire, face à l'évolution démographique de leurs territoires, son...
Starting from the perspective that the ageing human body always is a situation and in a situation, t...
International audienceBased on a study in Burkina Faso on individuals living on the street (who refe...
The creation in France of a dependency benefit, soon replaced by an autonomy allowance specific to s...
The research illustrated in this paper finds space within a broader interest in the social represent...