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What's rural about rural aging? An Appalachian perspective ∗
Abstract Despite the recent proliferation of literature on the aged in rural society, considerable ambiguity remains concerning the appropriate conceptualization of rurality as a potential influence upon the experience of growing old. This paper considers three alternative conceptualizations: aging in rural environments, in which rural is viewed as an ecological context; the environment of rural aging, in which rural is viewed as a socio-cultural context; and the rural environment of the aging, in which rural is viewed as a phenomenological perspective of those who are growing old. The applicability of each conceptualization is considered in relation to insights arising from an ethnographic study of aging in a single rural Appalachian community and other research on the elderly of Appalachia. While each conceptualization has heuristic value, it is concluded that studies focusing on rural as a socio-cultural context or as a phenomenological perspective are the most likely to result in significant theoretical advances in rural gerontology.
What's rural about rural aging? An Appalachian perspective ∗
Abstract Despite the recent proliferation of literature on the aged in rural society, considerable ambiguity remains concerning the appropriate conceptualization of rurality as a potential influence upon the experience of growing old. This paper considers three alternative conceptualizations: aging in rural environments, in which rural is viewed as an ecological context; the environment of rural aging, in which rural is viewed as a socio-cultural context; and the rural environment of the aging, in which rural is viewed as a phenomenological perspective of those who are growing old. The applicability of each conceptualization is considered in relation to insights arising from an ethnographic study of aging in a single rural Appalachian community and other research on the elderly of Appalachia. While each conceptualization has heuristic value, it is concluded that studies focusing on rural as a socio-cultural context or as a phenomenological perspective are the most likely to result in significant theoretical advances in rural gerontology.
What's rural about rural aging? An Appalachian perspective ∗
Rowles, Graham D. (Autor:in)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 4 ; 115-124
01.01.1988
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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