Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse

Ricca Edmondson

doi:10.46692/9781847426024

Ageing, Insight and Wisdom

Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse

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Ricca Edmondson, National University of Ireland Galway

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: March 2022
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781847426024
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847426024

Subjects:: Sociology of Religion, Sociology
Series:: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series

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This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the ways older people form part of social and symbolic landscapes, and the types of wisdom they can offer.

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Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Foreword
pp ix-xi

Series editor’s foreword
pp xii-xii

Introduction: the roles of meaning in (later) life
pp 1-26

one - Lifecourses, insight and meaning
pp 27-64

two - Diminishing older people: silence, occlusion and ‘fading out’
pp 65-96

three - Lifetimes, meaning and listening to older people
pp 97-154

four - Languages for life-course meaning and wisdom
pp 155-196

five - Conclusion: ethics, insight and wisdom in intergenerational life-course construction
pp 197-206

References
pp 207-234

Index
pp 235-244

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