Jacques Laforest. Introduction à la gérontologie. Croissance et déclin. Montréal: Hurtubise HMH, 1989, pp. 166.

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-103
Author(s):  
Nicole Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Existential Crisis

ABSTRACTJacques Laforest provides an introduction to gerontology viewed as an interdisciplinary field of study and reflection on old age. Old age is defined from a developmental perspective as two opposite yet complementary processes: those of decline and growth. The final stage of life is marked by an existential crisis of one's identity, autonomy and belonging. Researchers and specialists from all disciplines are invited to contribute towards an understanding and a resolution of this crisis. The purpose of this publication is to initiate the process of integrating knowledge and reflections on gerontology. This goal is achieved.

History of Cartography

Geography ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Edney
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
History Of Cartography ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Disciplinary Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
New Perspective

Until the 1980s, the study of the history of cartography was defined by two idealizations: (1) that maps are strictly factual statements and (2) that cartography is an innately progressive science that serves as a surrogate for Western civilization as a whole. Then, the recognition that maps are actually cultural texts made for specific functions transformed map history into an exciting, interdisciplinary field of study. Scholars across the humanities and social sciences now seek to understand how past peoples thought about and acted in their particular worlds. The result is a substantial literature, which in many respects resembles a multifaceted iceberg: each disciplinary perspective reveals only the tip. In taking a series of selective and topical cuts through the recent literature, this bibliography cannot take every new perspective into account. Necessarily excluded are the older literature, which despite its conceptual flaws, contains a wealth of important information; narratives of the development of maps of specific regions (“The Mapping of X”); and cartobibliographies (mostly regional in scope).

Religious Studies: Back to the Future : A Response to Markus Davidsen

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
Eric Venbrux
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Future

Abstract The author appreciates Davidsen’s concern with the future of Religious Studies, but thinks that its strength lies in being an interdisciplinary field of study. The field has the potential to bring together scholars involved in the study of religion and demonstrate its relevance by generating insights into complex, relevant and pressing problems.

scholarly journals The final stage of human development? Erikson's view of integrity and old age

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Chris Gilleard
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Clear Pattern ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Last Stage

This paper considers the significance for ageing studies of Erikson’s theory of adult development, particularly his last stage the crisis of ‘integrity’ versus ‘despair’. Because his model assumes a clear pattern of lifelong upward development, culminating with the ‘achievement’ of integrity and wisdom, it can be seen as helping underpin gerontology’s moral imperative to confer meaning and value upon old age. Despite the difficulties in empirically demonstrating the stage-like nature of adult development, and the dubious evidence that integrity is an essential feature of a successful old age, the inherent directionality of Erikson’s model supplies ageing with a purposive quality in contradistinction to alternative ‘decline’ narratives. Rather than continue a potentially fruitless search for proof , it might be better to conceptualise his adult ‘stages’ of identity, intimacy, generativity and integrity as key narrative themes running through the development of adult character, articulated, expressed and struggled over in various ways throughout adulthood including late life.

scholarly journals Starość jako etap życia w dziele Bartłomieja Paprockiego „Třinácte tabulí věku lidského”

2017 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 429-438
Author(s):  
Klaudia Koczur-Lejk
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Human Existence

Old age as astage of life in the workby Bartholomew Paprocki Třinácte tabulí věku lidskéhoBartholomew Paprocki in his work Třinácte tabulí věku lidského 1601 describes stages of human existence. Each stage constitutes one ‘‘board” in which Paprocki contains different moral messages. On individual “boards” the writer scrutinizes birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, old age. Paprocki perceives old age as the final stage of life, starting at the age of 60, which is aboun­dary between what happened and what will happen. The first part of human life is over and the rest should be devoted to religious worship, when one regrets sins committed in young age and begs God for forgiveness.Stáří jako etapa života vdíle Bartoloměje Paprockého Třinácte tabulí věku lidskéhoBartoloměj Paprocký ve svém díle Třinácte tabulí věku lidského 1601 popisuje etapa lid­ského života. Každé období je jedna „tabule”, ve které Paprocký dává jiné morální napomenutína základě citátů zantických spisovatelů acírkevních otců. Vjednotlivých „tabulích” autor cha­rakterizuje dětství, mládí, dospělost a stáří. Paprocký považuje stáří za poslední etapu života, jež začíná ve věku 60 let, který znamená hranici mezi tím, co bylo, atím, co bude. První částka života končí, v druhé částce je třeba žít zbožně, litovat hříchů spáchaných v mládí aprosit Boha o smilování.

scholarly journals Agro Informatics with its Various Attributes and Emergence: Emphasizing Potentiality as a Specialization in Agricultural Sciences—A Policy Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
P. K. Paul ◽  
P. S. Aithal ◽  
R. R. Sinha ◽  
Ricardo Saavedra ◽  
Bashiru Aremu
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Agricultural Sciences ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Different Levels

Informatics is one of the important branches of Applied Sciences. It is a practicing area and also a field of study.  The applications of Informatics in different areas and knowledge field has created various subjects and among these, one of important and emerging is Agricultural Informatics; which is the Information Science and Technology applications in the agriculture as well allied areas. In other words, techniques and technologies of both the fields i.e. Informatics and Agriculture lead the birth of Agro Informatics. The management and analysis of agricultural data with the help of Computing and IT may also be called as Agricultural Informatics. There are many allied nomenclatures of the field, but all are related and closely connected. In short, it is also called as Agro Informatics. Initially, it was treated only as a practicing area in the agriculture, horticulture, and veterinary sciences; but gradually it is a study area with different levels of programs at various universities and institutions, internationally. However, in the developed nation it is more common and widely available. Agro Informatics is an interdisciplinary field and very diverse. There are many features and functions, roles due to its timely need. This is a conceptual and policy-based research hence various aspects of Agro Informatics including its feature, functions, stakeholders, technologies including allied branches are mentioned. The paper also highlighted the proposed and possible programs of this field in academics in the field of Agricultural Sciences, as an empirical and policy research.

Conceptualizing and Mapping Geocultural Space

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Tools And Methods

This essay seeks to critically conceptualize the term geocultural space and the emerging field of study with which it is associated by exploring the various ways in which such space is currently being mapped by researchers using digital humanities tools and methods. In drawing together intersecting interests in Geographic Information Systems and spatio-cultural narratives and experiences, this work defines an interdisciplinary field of research that is gathering momentum as geolocative technologies that shape and reshape the ways in which we perceive and experience the world become increasingly prevalent in academic life and in the cultural mainstream.

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