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Ageing: The Common Denominator?

机译：老龄化：共同的分母？

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This paper undertakes to explore the gerontological and social science literature for the purpose of highlighting that while ageing is a common phenomenon across all world societies it nevertheless remains a unique personal experience. Drawing upon the metaphorical construct of the life journey, the authors use the cultural context of ageing to illustrate how the life-path for each individual, whether long or short, is necessarily unpredictable and involves a dynamic interaction between history and biography within a particular society and cultural framework. The authors challenge prospective readers to use their sociological imagination as proffered by the renowned sociologist C.W. Mills in the interest of moving beyond the biological dimension in order to see more clearly that ‘ageing into old age’ is in essence a unique personal life story. The life story of each individual is seen to represent a compilation of ongoing levels of compliance and /or tension between the individual’s subjective world and external forces the consequence of the individual being a thinking, willing and feeling person, an existential entity with potential for meaning making, self organization and adaptive responses to changing life circumstances. Notwithstanding the diverse cultural, racial and ethnic differences between people worldwide the ageing experience is shown to be a phenomenon displaying cross-cultural variability warranting further ongoing anthropological research. An examination of the many pathways to ageing utilizing a series of interactive factors helps to explain the existence of advantages and disadvantages leading to variations in availability and access to ‘life chances’ resulting in many people experiencing unacceptable levels of ill-health, poverty, racism, ageism, inequality and widespread levels of social injustice and abuse of human rights.
机译：本文着手探讨老年医学和社会科学文献，以期强调，尽管衰老是世界上所有社会的普遍现象，但衰老仍然是独特的个人经历。作者利用生命历程的隐喻结构，利用衰老的文化背景来说明每个人的生活方式（无论长短）必然是不可预测的，并且涉及特定社会中历史与传记之间的动态互动。和文化框架。作者挑战潜在的读者，使用著名社会学家C.W. Mills提出的社会学想象力，以超越生物学的范畴，以便更清楚地看到“老年”本质上是一个独特的个人生活故事。每个人的生活故事被视为代表着个人主观世界与外在力量之间持续不断的顺从性和/或张力的汇编，这是由于个人是一个思考，愿意和感觉到的人，是一个具有潜在意义的存在性实体做出，自我组织和对不断变化的生活环境的适应性反应。尽管全球各地的人在文化，种族和种族上存在多种差异，但衰老经历仍被证明是一种显示跨文化变异性的现象，值得进一步进行人类学研究。利用一系列互动因素对衰老的多种途径进行研究，有助于解释存在优缺点的原因，从而导致可获得性和获得“生命机会”的差异，导致许多人遭受不良的健康，贫困，种族歧视，年龄歧视，不平等以及广泛的社会不公正和侵犯人权现象。

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