Reflection on Redefinition of Elderly People's Role in the Modern Society

• Authors: Thel, Karolina

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the presented paper is to redefine the place and category of elderly people facing the demographic and cultural changes in the contemporary world. It presents the lack of precision to define the topic because of the internal cate- gory differentiation. The paper makes an attempt to discuss the generation gap distance on the basis of Margaret Mead's theory and tries to give an answer to the question of the present and future role of elderly people in the post-modern society.

Keywords

EN

elderly people; age as a socio-demographic category; generation distance; transformation experience; social roles of elderly people

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 250

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Thel, Karolina

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/608