Purpose This phenomenological inquiry explored what it is like to become and to be old.
The principal aims of this study were to first characterize participants' lived experience of …

This article recovers the understated engagement with the question of mortality and the
relationship to death in life through a reading of the classics of sociology–Durkheim, Marx …

In response to Freud's notion that large things reveal themselves in small indications, this
article analyses the greeting as a social form, using the resources of classical sociological …

The anxiety over death persists in everyday life-though often denied or repressed-lingering
as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one's feelings of …

I try to understand the ordeal of solitude by beginning with Marc Augé's usage on transitional
sites as a provocation, which leads us to rethink solitude as a condition of subjectivity and its …

A review of the original paper on motive by Blum and McHugh (1971) is used as an
occasion to make transparent an approach to social theory as it has developed over the …

This chapter sets out to consider the elusive category of frailty–both as medical diagnosis
and as lived experience–as it is conceptualized in philosophy, history, and anthropology …

Baby Boomer women continue to influence society as they have in the past through the
Feminist and Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Barrett and Toothman (2012) …

RESUMO BEDRAN-MARTINS, AMB Avaliação dos impactos de políticas públicas de
transferência de renda na qualidade de vida no semiárido nordestino face às mudanças …

Будучи чрезвычайно мало разработанной, тема социальной формы содержит
слишком много исследовательских лакун, и было бы нереально заполнить их в рамках …