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Aging and identity-in-the-world: a phenomenological analysis
International Journal of Aging & Human Development
|January 1, 1982
Summary
This study critiques objectivism in aging and identity research, proposing a phenomenological approach. It argues that understanding identity inherently involves understanding the aging process and human nature.
Area of Science:
- Gerontology
- Philosophy of Social Science
- Phenomenology
Background:
- Critiques
- objectivistic
- approaches to aging and identity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To offer a phenomenological rethinking of aging and identity.
- To develop a theory of identity as intrinsically linked to the aging process.
Main Methods:
- Phenomenological analysis of
- identity-in-the-world
- as experienced in everyday life.
Main Results:
- A theory of identity is necessarily a theory of aging.
- The aging process represents the temporal limits of lived experience.
Conclusions:
- This approach transcends objectivism vs. subjectivism and biologism vs. sociologism.
- Challenges prevailing conceptions of human nature in social science.