Paul Higgs, Professor of Sociology of Ageing and Chris Gilleard, Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Psychiatry, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, UK

• ContentsPreface1 How sociological is the sociology of ageing?2 The social structuring of later life 3 Representing age: culture and society4 Class, generation and later lifestyle 5 Divisions and inequalities in later life 6 Risk society, cosmopolitanisation and later life 7 Households, families and communities 8 Ageing, health and the body 9 Towards a revised set of ‘foglamps’ and ‘leitmotifs’ fora new sociology of later life References Index

‘Higgs and Gilleard have delivered yet another ambitious book that offers a conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of later life as a social space. Crucially, it prompts a necessary rethinking in the sociological canon of aging in late modernity to make sense of the seeming contradictions and complexities of the social world.’

Paul Higgs, Professor of Sociology of Ageing and Chris Gilleard, Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Psychiatry, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, UK

• ContentsPreface1 How sociological is the sociology of ageing?2 The social structuring of later life 3 Representing age: culture and society4 Class, generation and later lifestyle 5 Divisions and inequalities in later life 6 Risk society, cosmopolitanisation and later life 7 Households, families and communities 8 Ageing, health and the body 9 Towards a revised set of ‘foglamps’ and ‘leitmotifs’ fora new sociology of later life References Index

‘Higgs and Gilleard have delivered yet another ambitious book that offers a conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of later life as a social space. Crucially, it prompts a necessary rethinking in the sociological canon of aging in late modernity to make sense of the seeming contradictions and complexities of the social world.’

Paul Higgs, Professor of Sociology of Ageing and Chris Gilleard, Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Psychiatry, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, UK

• ContentsPreface1 How sociological is the sociology of ageing?2 The social structuring of later life 3 Representing age: culture and society4 Class, generation and later lifestyle 5 Divisions and inequalities in later life 6 Risk society, cosmopolitanisation and later life 7 Households, families and communities 8 Ageing, health and the body 9 Towards a revised set of ‘foglamps’ and ‘leitmotifs’ fora new sociology of later life References Index

‘Higgs and Gilleard have delivered yet another ambitious book that offers a conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of later life as a social space. Crucially, it prompts a necessary rethinking in the sociological canon of aging in late modernity to make sense of the seeming contradictions and complexities of the social world.’