TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montandon,Christiane
TI  - Do Ages in Life Have Clear Boundaries?
PY  - 2012///.
							
N1  - 55
N2  - The ways in which we refer to ages in life, which stem from social constructs, point to shifting boundaries that are effectively socio-cultural demarcations. The nature of boundaries is inherently dual: they are objective and subjective, external and internal, and they are continually erected and reconstructed with shifting socio-historical and cultural contexts and interactions. They are barriers but also gateways. A series of interviews with young unemployed people in training and with elderly people trying to cope with urban transformations shows that one’s age can either be experienced as a dynamic process of change in one’s relationships with oneself, with others and with one’s environment, or as a process of exclusion and social death
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2012-2-page-43?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -