scholarly journals Wariacje na temat starości w opowiadaniach Brunona Schulza

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Smusz
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Poetic Prose ◽  
Bruno Schulz

The article raises, so far overlooked in the gerontological literature, question of old age based on the compositions: “Pensioner”, “Loneliness” and “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass” by Bruno Schulz. According to the aforementioned concept, the author of “The Cinnamon Shops” unites poetic prose with broadly defined and still valid social issues. Schulz depicts the autumn of life as having numerous faces — it is associated with various experiences such as returning to childhood and youth at all costs, loneliness, lack of care and interest on the part of loved ones, finally leading to isolation and social exclusion. However, the writer describes these aspects without any pathos, often using irony and reviving presented images with a use of fantastic elements.

scholarly journals Unfolding Ageism: A Comparative Study of the Divided Ethnic Communities in Cyprus

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Gregory Neocleous ◽  
Buse Erzeybek ◽  
Menelaos Apostolou
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
Current Survey ◽  
Views And Perceptions ◽  
Social Views ◽  
Turkish Cypriot

The aims and objectives of this article are to present the first survey ever conducted in Cyprus of the views and perceptions that Cypriots have of old age. In particular, the researchers, Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot social workers, wanted to explore the issue of ageism within the two Cypriot communities, the Greek-Cypriot (Greek-speaking) and the Turkish-Cypriot (Turkish-speaking) populations. Against all odds, the two social workers, one from each community, began collaborating towards the exploration and comparison of social issues in the two Cypriot ethnic communities. Because the two communities have been forced to live separately since 1974, researchers aimed to investigate whether this long separation affected their views on old age. The study was also run online, and the survey was designed with the use of Google Forms. Although the results of the study are not significantly different between the two communities, the current survey explores the preservation of common cultural and social views and values among the two ethnic communities, despite their forced separation.

scholarly journals Listening to Australian Indigenous men: stories of incarceration and hope

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 568-577
Author(s):  
John Macdonald ◽  
Tony Scholes ◽  
Kay Powell
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Penal System ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Male Suicide ◽  
Small Project ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Objective Being

ObjectiveThis paper reports on a project conducted between 2008 and 2011 that was established to allow eight Australian Indigenous men who had been in prison to tell their stories of incarceration.BackgroundThe Shed in Western Sydney, NSW, Australia, was set up in response to the high male suicide rate in that area, its objective being to support men at risk. Aboriginal men were the most at risk, and they are presently imprisoned at a rate of 13 times more than non-Indigenous men. This small project sought to give voice to the men behind the statistics and point to a significant problem in Australian society.MethodsInterviews were conducted by an Indigenous male, questions covering age at first entering the penal system, number of prison stays, support, and health. This paper is framed around responses to these questions.ResultsAll but one of the men were recidivist offenders, and over half were under 15 years of age when first offending. All talked about a lack of support both inside and after leaving prison, and alcohol and depression figured strongly in the accounts. Disadvantage and social exclusion, lack of support such as access to housing and health services, figure significantly in the men’s stories. It is only when social issues are addressed that any gains will be achieved and a cycle of recidivism broken.

scholarly journals Orang Lom: Masalah Sosial dan Ancaman Kearifan Lokal dalam Tinjauan Sosiologi

Society ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Jamilah Cholillah
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One

Social issues and local wisdom of Orang Lom People in Air Abik a contrasting duality. On the one side local knowledge continue to be maintained and preserved even exploited for the benefit of generations, but on the other side, the local wisdom, leaving only sadness being trapped on social issues such as local institutional stagnation and conflict prolonged tenure. The contrasting sides led to the existence of indigenous communities Lom People weakened and started moving towards industrialization resulted in waning social memory and the passage of the process of social exclusion.

scholarly journals Constructing the Political Potential of the Retired Segments of Society

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 987
Author(s):  
Ljubica Milosavljević
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Second Period

The paper represents an attempt to address the issue of ways in which the political potential of the retired population is constructed. This process can be divided into two distinct periods. The first started with the introduction of the multiparty system, when the political potential of pensioners was imbedded into the activities of the Socialist Party of Serbia which had been in power at the time. This indicates the failure of political parties of pensioners to construct the issue of retirees as a political, or broader social issue. The second period is characterized by the loss of influence of the SPS after the political changes of 2000, after which the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) was formed, in 2005, as an independent political organization. This party, finally, succeeded in constructing the political potential of pensioners as a resource, but it did so with the help of coalition partners among which the regenerated SPS is a major one, a fact which means that the process of construction continues relentlessly. The construed resource, for the political activities of the party as well as for the oldest part of society or pensioners as potential voters, is one of the major indicators of old age as a social issue in the "arena" it shares with other social issues.

scholarly journals Age-Friendly Approaches and Old-Age Exclusion: A Cross-City Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Buffel ◽  
Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard ◽  
Kieran Walsh ◽  
Bernard McDonald ◽  
An-Sofie Smetcoren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Research Gap

Developing ‘Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC)’ has become a key part of policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people in urban areas. Despite this development, there is evidence of rising inequalities among urban elders, and little known about the potential and limitations of the age-friendly model to reduce old-age exclusion. This article addresses this research gap by comparing how Brussels, Dublin, and Manchester, as three members of the Global Network of AFCC, have responded to social exclusion in later life. The article combines data from document analysis and stakeholder interviews to examine: first, the age-friendly approach and the goal of reducing social exclusion; and second, barriers to developing age-friendly policies as a means of addressing exclusion. The paper suggests that there are reciprocal benefits in linking age-friendly and social exclusion agendas for producing new ways of combatting unequal experiences of ageing in cities.

scholarly journals COMPOSITE MEASURES FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL SOCIAL EXCLUSION: AN APPLICATION TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S803-S803
Author(s):  
Sinead Keogh ◽  
Stephen O’ Neill ◽  
Kieran Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Composite Measure ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Linear Aggregation

Abstract The measurement of the complex, multidimensional and dynamic concept of old-age social exclusion has been constrained due to theoretical and methodological challenges as well as a reliance on secondary data sources not designed to collect social exclusion indicators. Limitations in measuring social exclusion in later life hinder the expansion of our empirical and conceptual understanding of social exclusion. In this paper, we seek to address these limitations by developing a composite measure of old-age social exclusion using three methods: 1) normalisation through re-scaling with linear aggregation, 2) a sum-of-scores approach with an applied threshold and, 3) classification and regression trees (CART), a machine learning approach. Using the conceptual framework of old-age exclusion presented by Walsh et al., (2017), these three approaches are applied empirically with data from Wave 1 of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The measures are assessed in terms of their ability to explain a validated measure of psychological well-being. Results suggest that despite the challenges associated with secondary data and measurement techniques that implicitly measure social exclusion, the newly proposed composite measure computed using CART performed better than the other two measures which are more prevalent in the literature.

Predicament of Disability, Old Age, and Extreme

2022 ◽  
pp. 254-278
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Sensory Impairment

The study of poverty explores the experiences of elderly people and people living with disabilities pertaining to the five broad categories of disability, namely physical disability, blindness, deafness, and mental illness, including perceived barriers and remedies. Disability whether physical infirmity, disease, or sensory impairment or perhaps later in life, by the onset of illness or frailty due to aging, is conceptualized as a restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a ‘normal' or expected manner. By focusing on the African extended family's context and the living conditions among people with and without disabilities, this discussion informs policy everywhere to combat poverty and social exclusion and discrimination, take lifecycle approach to individual needs, eliminate poverty among the elderly and in people living with disabilities, and ensure access to social protections and community participation.

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Higgs ◽  
Chris Gilleard
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Theoretical Examination ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Agency And Identity

How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth age, interrogating notions of agency, identity and personhood, as well as the impact of frailty, abjection and ‘othering’. It then applies this analysis to issues of care. Exploring our collective hopes and fears concerning old age and the ends of people’s lives, this is essential reading on one of the biggest social issues of our time.

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