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The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
Bernhard Weicht
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Description for The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
Paperback. Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP31; JHB; JHBC; JHBK; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
Bernhard Weicht provides a multi-layered analysis of how we understand and construct care in everyday life, the meanings it has for ourselves, our families, our relationships, identities and our sense of society and what is right and proper, making an original contribution to the discussion of the nature of care ethics and its political potential.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349445943
SKU
V9781349445943
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Bernhard Weicht
Bernhard Weicht is Lecturer at Leiden University College, The Netherlands. Bernhard has researched and published on the construction of care, ideas of dependency, migrant care workers, the intersection of migration and care regimes, and the construction of ageing and older people. He is vice-chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network 'Ageing in Europe'.
Reviews for The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
The Meaning of Care mainly discusses the construction of informal care for older people in European countries. ... The aim of the book is to demonstrate how discourses of care are interlinked with moral constructions, nostalgia and gendered practices. ... I see it as a valuable contribution to any education that involves care. And in an educational context it might ... Read more