2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
HISTORICAL RESEARCH ON THE IMAGE OF THE AGED IN THE THEORY OF WELFARE STATE
| Project/Area Number |
12630015
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
経済理論
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| Research Institution | NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YASUKAWA Etsuko NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, PROFESSOR, 人文社会学部, 教授 (90071034)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
BESSHO Yoshimi NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 人文社会学部, 助教授 (10219149)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2001
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| Keywords | Ageing (Aging) / Ageism (Agism) / Feminism / Productive Aging / Welfare State / Gerontology / The Old Age Pension / Critical Gerontology |
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| Research Abstract |
We can find many discussions on the economic problems that is attributable to graying population an declining fertility. Above all, the financial crisis of welfare states in such as those countries, Japan, USA and UK is very serious problem.
When we consider this graying population issues, it is key to understand what the image of the aged in those discussions is. In this crisis theory, the aged has been assumed as feeble, invalid and parasite people to the society and the state.
In this research I intend to reveal the following : 1) that the image of the aged has been historically formed, and it is, therefore, changeable, 2) that the new image of the aged in the coming new century is to be figured as positive and productive people.
Surveying ageing studies in USA and UK for the last decade, I conclude the trend of study is shifting from negative ageing to positive ageing. The feminists' ideas, such as Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, are a clue to the shift of image of the discrimination against the aged and women. Both of them have long been deprived of their rights of work both publicly and privately under a cloak of dependent.
I have got some ideas to consider how to claim the right of work for the aged and what the social-economic system suitable for it.]
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