Titlebook: Social Identities Aross Life Course; Jenny Hockey,Allison James Textbook 2003Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s

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Problematising Ageing and Identitys, and one we set ourselves in this book, is to explain such processes and their impact on people’s everyday lives. Just as gender and ‘race’ shape people’s identities, so does the ageing process. In this book, we assess the extent to which social science has provided a satisfactory account of how it is we come to know that we are ageing.

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Problematising Ageing and Identitythis question we recognise that, though our bodies change over time, those changes are imperceptible on a day-to-day basis. And yet we are, nonetheless, aware that we are ageing and we know that being of a certain age brings with it social obligations and expectations. The task of the social science

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The Structuring of Ageiety and how, in the process, they come to take on particular identities. We begin with a discussion of the rituals and rites through which human ageing is produced and made meaningful in different societies. To this end, the chapter asks how identification — the negotiation of social identity — rel