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Life-course, Ageing, and Social Exclusion, 7.5 credits
Livslopp, åldrande och social exkludering, 7.5 hp
708A02
Main field of study
Ageing and Later LifeCourse level
Second cycleCourse type
Single subject and programme courseExaminer
Andreas Motel-KlingebielCourse coordinator
Andreas Motel-KlingebielDirector of studies or equivalent
Andreas Motel-KlingebielAvailable for exchange students
YesContact
ECV = Elective / Compulsory / Voluntary
| Course offered for | Semester | Weeks | Language | Campus | ECV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single subject course (Half-time, Day-time) | Autumn 2020 | 202035-202044 | English | Norrköping, Norrköping | ||
| Single subject course (Half-time, Day-time) | Autumn 2020 | 202035-202044 | English | Norrköping, Norrköping | ||
Main field of study
Ageing and Later LifeCourse level
Second cycleAdvancement level
A1NEntry requirements
- 180 ECTS credits passed with 90 ECTS credits passed in one subject area including an academic paper of 15 ECTS credits
- English corresponding to the level of English in Swedish upper secondary education (Engelska 6/B)
(Exemption from Swedish)
Intended learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
• understand and illustrate social science concepts of life-course, ageing and social exclusion and their empirical applicability in the analysis of changing contemporary societies in a Swedish, European and global perspective.
• compare and contrast risk factors and outcomes of social exclusion from a life-course perspective.
• describe and critically reflect on the social and political relevance of the various aspects of social exclusion – economic, spatial, cultural, civic, services, social relations – in ageing societies and corresponding problems for national, European and global policies from an interdisciplinary perspective.
• apply knowledge and research skills to examine social exclusion with ageing using a life-course perspective.
Course content
Social exclusion is a process where individuals are prevented from participating fully in society and the concept of social exclusion is multidimensional and covers life domains such as production, activity, health and health behaviour, material/financial resources, social relationships, civic participation, and access to services. The course emphasises the issue of social exclusion, with health and life-course as crosscutting perspectives. A specific emphasis will be put on shifts related to the demographic transition and the extended importance of later life. The interdisciplinary and intersectional correspondences of the issue will be accentuated. Besides a Swedish focus, an international comparative perspective will be taken. The students will be enabled to contribute with their own research questions and to discuss analytical designs to process them.
Teaching and working methods
Teaching is through lectures, seminars, individual and group exercises and the corresponding scientific literature. Active student participation is key to assess the interdisciplinary and multi-thematic complexity of the issue.
Examination
The course is examined through:
- active seminar participation, grading scale: UG
- written assignments, grading scale: UG
- individual written essay, grading scale: UV
Active participation consists of presentations, assessment tasks and participation in the seminar discussion. Written examination is through an essay on a key course topic. To pass requires to be approved in all these fields.
If the LiU coordinator for students with disabilities has granted a student the right to an adapted examination for a written examination in an examination hall, the student has the right to it. If the coordinator has instead recommended for the student an adapted examination or alternative form of examination, the examiner may grant this if the examiner assesses that it is possible, based on consideration of the course objectives.
Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course twice are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.
Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.
Grades
Three-grade scale, U, G, VGOther information
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.
The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.
Department
Institutionen för kultur och samhälle| Code | Name | Scope | Grading scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESS1 | Essay | 4.5 credits | U, G, VG |
| UPG1 | Written report | 1.5 credits | U, G |
| RED1 | Oral presentation | 1.5 credits | U, G |
Compulsory literature
Books
Blaakilde, A. L. & Nilsson, G. (2013). , Introduction. Mobility and migration in later life In A. L. Blaakilde & G. Nilsson (Eds.), Nordic seniors on the move: Mobility and migration in later life. Lund: Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences.
Engström, L.-G., Heikkinen, S. and Krekula, C. (2020) , Sweden In Léime Á. N., Ogg, J., Rašticová, M., Street, D., Krekula, C., Bédiová, M. and Madero-Cabib, I. (eds) Extended Working Life Policies. International Gender and Health Perspectives. Springer Open.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40985-2_35
García-Peña, C., Espinel-Bermúdez, C., Tella-Vega, P., Pérez-Zepeda, M. U., & Gutiérrez-Robledo, L. M. (2018). , Longitudinal studies and older adults cohorts In Aging research-methodological issues (pp. 95-113). Springer, Cham.
García-Peña, María del Carmen, Gutiérrez Robledo, Luis Miguel, Pérez-Zepeda, Mario Ulises, (2018) Aging Research : Methodological Issues. Second edition. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
ISBN: 9783319953878, 3319953877, 9783319953861
Pérez-Zepeda, M. U., García-Peña, C., & Gutiérrez-Robledo, L. M. (2018). , The need for differentiated research methodology in aging. In Aging research-methodological issues (pp. 1-9). Springer, Cham.
Sugar, Judith A., Riekse, Robert J., Holstege, Henry, Faber, Michael A., (2014) Introduction to aging : a positive, interdisciplinary approach. New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, 2014
ISBN: 9780826108807
Articles
Achenbaum, W. A. (2015), A history of ageism since 1969 Generations Generations, 39(3), 10-16.
Bell, C. (2017). , The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: international retirement migration on film. Ageing and Society Ageing and Society, 37(10), 1975-1986
Bengtsson, T., & Scott, K. (2011)., Population ageing and the future of the Swedish welfare state. Population and Development Review Population and Development Review, supplement, 37.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00382.x
Bień, B., McKee, K. J., Döhner, H., Triantafillou, J., Lamura, G., Doroszkiewicz, H., ... & Kofahl, C. (2013). , Disabled older people’s use of health and social care services and their unmet care needs in six European countries The European Journal of Public Health The European Journal of Public Health, 23(6), 1032-1038.
Butler, R. (2005). , Ageism: Looking back over my shoulder Generations Generations, 29(3), 84-86
Butler, R. N. (1980). , Ageism: A foreword Journal of Social Issues Journal of Social Issues, 36(2), 8-11.
Ciobanu, R. O., Fokkema, T. & Nedelcu, M. (2016). , Ageing as a migrant: vulnerabilities, agency and policy implications. Journal of ethnic and migration studies Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 43 (2)
Crimmins, E. M., & Beltrán-Sánchez, H. (2011). , Mortality and morbidity trends: is there compression of morbidity? Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 66(1), 75-86.
Dannefer, D. (2003). , Cumulative advantage/disadvantage and the life course: Cross-fertilizing age and social science theory. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 58(6), S327-S337.
Dennis, H., & Thomas, K. (2007). , Ageism in the workplace. Generations, 31(1), 84-89.
Draulans, V., Hlebec, V., Maskeliunas, R., Siren, A., & Lamura, G. (2017)., Exclusion from Services Knowledge Synthesis Paper. ROSEnet Services Working Group, Knowledge Synthesis Series: No. 3. CA 15122 Reducing Old-Age Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy.
Ferraro, K. F., & Shippee, T. P. (2009). , Aging and cumulative inequality: How does inequality get under the skin? The Gerontologist, 49(3), 333-343.
Fries, J. F. (2005). , The compression of morbidity The Milbank Quarterly, 83(4), 801-823
Palmore, E. (2005). , Three decades of research on ageism Generations, 29(3), 87-90.
Walsh, K., Scharf, T., & Keating, N. (2017). , Social exclusion of older persons: a scoping review and conceptual framework. European Journal of Ageing, 14(1), 81-98.
Additional literature
Books
Blaakilde, Anne Leonora, Nilsson, Gabriella, (2014) Nordic seniors on the move : mobility and migration in later life. Lund : Media-Tryck, 2014
ISBN: 9789198145809, 20017529
Pavlidis, G. (2018). , Methodological considerations. In Social and behavioural factors associated with cognitive and functional performance in cognitively healthy older adults Doctoral dissertation, University of Sheffield.
Articles
Dannefer, D. (2020). , Systemic and reflexive: Foundations of cumulative dis/advantage and life-course processes. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(6), 1249-1263.
Lloyd-Sherlock, P., Ebrahim, S., Geffen, L., & McKee, M. (2020). , Bearing the brunt of covid-19: older people in low and middle income countries.
Myck, M., Ogg, J., Aigner-Walder, B., Kåreholt, I., Kostakis, I., Motel-Klingebiel, A., ... & Thelin, A. (2017). , Economic aspects of old age exclusion: a scoping report the ROSEnet economic working group.
Nedelcu, M. & Wyss, M. (2019). , Transnational grandparenting: an introduction Global Networks, 20 (2).
Walker, A. (2006). , Reexamining the political economy of aging: understanding the structure/agency tension . Aging, globalization and inequality: The new critical gerontology, 59-80.
Walker, A. & Maltby, T. (2012). , Active ageing: A strategic policy solution to demographic ageing in the European Union. International Journal of Social Welfare, 21, 117-130
Other
Action, C. O. S. T. (2019). Seven Policy Messages on Long-Term Care. Available at: http://rosenetcost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rosenet-ltc-policy-messages-september-2019.pdf
European Cinema for Active Ageing. The CINAGE project. Available at: https://www.cinageproject.eu/en/package/films.html
Reducing old-age social exclusion: Collaborations in research and policy. Available at: http://rosenetcost.com/
Schulz, J. H. (2010). The economics of ageing. In D. Dannefer & C. Phillipson (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of social gerontology. London: Sage.
United Nations, Ageing: https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/ageing/
World Health Organization (December, 2017a). Proposed working definition of an older person in Africa for the MDS Project. Available at http://www.who.int/healthinfo/survey/ageingdefnolder/en/
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