SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ

Sayı: 25 1 Mart 2011
  • Pelin Önder Erol
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Demographic Ageing from Sociological Perspective: Agency of Elderly in Social, Economical and Political Aspects

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In this study, which deals with the aging process as experienced both individually at the micro-level and demographically at the macro-level, quantitative and qualitative techniques are used together to parallel the multilevel approach. The quantitative data was gathered through structured interviews conducted with a sample of 416 people aged 65 and over and living in Izmir; the qualitative data was gathered through in-depth interviews conducted with 16 people chosen from the same research population. These data indicate that older people have a transformative capacity in society which is framed by the social structure’s resources and constraints, and that they therefore act as social agents. This argument is supported and explained by drawing upon Anthony Giddens’ Structuration Theory, which attempts to mediate between theories that highlight structure and theories that highlight the individual agents. Moreover, this study concludes that a set of parameters cause differences in the forms and levels of agency of old people in social, economic, and political fields. These parameters are: the area where they live, educational background, income, age, marital status, subjective health, gender, and living arrangements. In this respect, old people are viewed as a very heterogeneous group. This study criticizes a perspective that puts high value on economic productivity as defined by modern capitalist society. In doing so, it argues that old people cannot be portrayed through deficiency and insufficiency, as is occasionally done in academic literature and is frequently done in the discourse of everyday life. Instead, old people maintain their agency in many areas, but at different levels according to the various parameters studied. Noting that in the near future the absolute and relative numbers of old people in the population of Turkey will increase dramatically, this study emphasizes the agency of the elderly; in this context, a set of suggestions concerning old age in Turkey are developed

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Kaynakça

  1. GIDDENS, Anthony, 1999, Toplumun Kuruluşu, (çev. Hüseyin Özel), Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları: Ankara
  2. TÜİK, 2007, Bölgesel İzleme Göstergeleri TR31 İzmir, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu Matbaası: Ankara
  3. UNITED NATIONS, 2008, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision Population Database, (www.un.org)
  4. UNITED NATIONS, 2010, World Population Ageing 2009, Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Population Division, United Nations: New York (www.un.org)

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Türkçe

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Yayımlanma Tarihi

1 Mart 2011

Gönderilme Tarihi

1 Mart 2011

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Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2011 Sayı: 25

Kaynak Göster

APA
Erol, P. Ö. (2011). SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ. Sosyoloji Dergisi, 25, 141-147. https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC
AMA
1.Erol PÖ. SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ. JOS. 2011;(25):141-147. https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC
Chicago
Erol, Pelin Önder. 2011. “SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ”. Sosyoloji Dergisi, sy 25: 141-47. https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC.
EndNote
Erol PÖ (01 Mart 2011) SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ. Sosyoloji Dergisi 25 141–147.
IEEE
[1]P. Ö. Erol, “SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ”, JOS, sy 25, ss. 141–147, Mar. 2011, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC
ISNAD
Erol, Pelin Önder. “SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ”. Sosyoloji Dergisi. 25 (01 Mart 2011): 141-147. https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC.
JAMA
1.Erol PÖ. SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ. JOS. 2011;:141–147.
MLA
Erol, Pelin Önder. “SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ”. Sosyoloji Dergisi, sy 25, Mart 2011, ss. 141-7, https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC.
Vancouver
1.Pelin Önder Erol. SOSYOLOJİK PERSPEKTİFTEN DEMOGRAFİK YAŞLANMA: TOPLUMSAL, EKONOMİK VE POLİTİK ALANLARDA YAŞLI FAİLLİĞİ. JOS [Internet]. 01 Mart 2011;(25):141-7. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA98BZ33DC

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