Dementia as Zeitgeist: Social Problem Construction and the Role of a Contemporary Distraction

Authors: Parker, J., Cutler, C. and Heaslip, V.

Journal: Sociological Research Online

Volume: 26

Issue: 2

Pages: 309-325

eISSN: 1360-7804

DOI: 10.1177/1360780420929033

Abstract:

The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic, and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia research and care have become embedded in primary mandates for action within the agendas of governments and health research and service organisations. Using notions of social problem construction and sociologies of legitimacy, this article seeks to explore dementia as Zeitgeist that has captured imaginations but as such is contingent and therefore precarious building an edifice that may be limited and may occlude dangers for people living with dementia. This article argues for an applied sociological approach that recognises precarity and seeks to embed a sustainable praxis-focused axiology at macro, meso, and micro levels in respect of approaches to dementia.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33953/

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Dementia as<i>Zeitgeist</i>: Social Problem Construction and the Role of a Contemporary Distraction

Authors: Parker, J., Cutler, C. and Heaslip, V.

Journal: SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE

Volume: 26

Issue: 2

Pages: 309-325

ISSN: 1360-7804

DOI: 10.1177/1360780420929033

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33953/

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Dementia as Zeitgeist: Social problem construction and the role of a contemporary distraction

Authors: Parker, J., Eyres, C. and Heaslip, V.

Journal: Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal

Publisher: Sociological Research Online

ISSN: 1360-7804

Abstract:

The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia research and care has become embedded in primary mandates for action within the agendas of governments and health research and service organisations. Using notions of social problem construction and sociologies of legitimacy this paper seeks to explore dementia as Zeitgeist that has captured imaginations but as such is contingent and therefore precarious building an edifice that may be limited and may occlude dangers for people living with dementia. This paper argues for an applied sociological approach that recognises precarity and seeks to embed a sustainable praxis-focused axiology at macro, meso and micro levels in respect of approaches to dementia.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33953/

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Dementia as Zeitgeist: Social problem construction and the role of a contemporary distraction

Authors: Parker, J., Cutler, C. and Heaslip, V.

Journal: Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal

Volume: 26

Issue: 2

Pages: 309-325

ISSN: 1360-7804

Abstract:

The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia research and care has become embedded in primary mandates for action within the agendas of governments and health research and service organisations. Using notions of social problem construction and sociologies of legitimacy this paper seeks to explore dementia as Zeitgeist that has captured imaginations but as such is contingent and therefore precarious building an edifice that may be limited and may occlude dangers for people living with dementia. This paper argues for an applied sociological approach that recognises precarity and seeks to embed a sustainable praxis-focused axiology at macro, meso and micro levels in respect of approaches to dementia.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33953/

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