The Meaning of Care

The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-27493-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4287 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weicht, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2.Who Should Care? The Construction of Caring Relationships 3. Where Should Care be Given and Received? The Geographies of Care 4. How Should Communities Care? Nostalgia and Longing for the Ideal 5. Who is Seen to be Care For? The Construction of the Care Receiver 6. Buying and Selling Care? The Intrusion of Markets and Bureaucracy 7. Epilogue Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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'.