Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Gero-transcendcncc: A reformulation of the disengagement theory

Gero-transcendcncc: A reformulation of the disengagement theory This article offers a meta-theoretical reformulation of the disengagement theory. It is argued that what social gerontologists describe in negative terms and label “disengagement” is in reality often a positive development towards gero-transcendence. This latter can be described as a shift in meta-perspective from a materialistic and rational view to a more cosmic and transcendent one, normally followed by an increase in life satisfaction. To understand the nature of gero-transcendence gerontologists have to make a meta-theoretical shift from a traditional positivist view to a view where disengagement is phenomenologically comprehended. As the article includes some criticism of interactionist-based social gerontology, it should be mentioned that the author himself has been and is working within this theoretical tradition. The article is as much self-criticism as anything else. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aging Clinical and Experimental Research Springer Journals

Gero-transcendcncc: A reformulation of the disengagement theory

Download PDF
9 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/gero-transcendcncc-a-reformulation-of-the-disengagement-theory-tmMYM10ASP
Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Geriatrics/Gerontology
eISSN
1720-8319
DOI
10.1007/BF03323876
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This article offers a meta-theoretical reformulation of the disengagement theory. It is argued that what social gerontologists describe in negative terms and label “disengagement” is in reality often a positive development towards gero-transcendence. This latter can be described as a shift in meta-perspective from a materialistic and rational view to a more cosmic and transcendent one, normally followed by an increase in life satisfaction. To understand the nature of gero-transcendence gerontologists have to make a meta-theoretical shift from a traditional positivist view to a view where disengagement is phenomenologically comprehended. As the article includes some criticism of interactionist-based social gerontology, it should be mentioned that the author himself has been and is working within this theoretical tradition. The article is as much self-criticism as anything else.

Journal

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research – Springer Journals

Published: Jul 1, 2013

References

  • Disengagement — A tentative theory of aging
    Cumming, E; Newell, DS
  • Growing Old: The process of disengargement
    Cumming, E; Henry, W
  • Further thoughts on the theory of disengagement
    Cumming, E
  • Stability of activity participation in an aged population
    Desroches, HF; Kaiman, BD
  • Political behavior in the aged: Some new data
    Kapnick, PL
  • The effects of aging on activities and attitudes
    Palmore, EB
  • Voluntary vs involontary social withdrawal
    Lowenthal, M; Boler, E
  • An investigation of activity patterns and adjustment in an aging population
    Havens, BJ
  • Disengagement potential: replication and use as an explanatory variable
    Tissue, TL
  • Interaction and adaptation: Intimacy as a critical variable
    Lowenthal, M; Haven, C
  • Some explanations of the changing appearance of psychotic patients: antecedents of the social breakdown syndrome concept
    Zusman, J
  • Social breakdown and competence
    Kuypers, JA; Bengtson, VL
  • Ensamhetens ansikten. En studie av ensamhetsupplevelser hos svenskar i aldrarna 15–80 ar, Arbetsrapport nr 29 fran projektet Aldre i samhället-förr, nu och i framtiden
    Tornstam, L
  • Dubbla verkligheter
    Hakanson, K
  • Ovetande och uetande
    Hakanson, K
  • Det osedda
    Hakanson, K
  • Time, roles and self in old age
    Hochschild, AR
  • Time, roles and self in old age
    Gutman, D
  • Det ubeviste
    Jung, CG
  • Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
    Fromm, E
  • Fairy tales and transpersonal development in later life
    Chinen, AB
  • Elder tables revisited: Forms of transcendence in later life
    Chinen, AB
  • Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences
    Kalish, RA