Influence of state transformations on perceptions and age periodization about older persons: a sociological analysis
https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2022.2.42-47
Abstract
Based on socio-historical, scientific and theoretical approaches, the author of the article analyzes public perceptions of old age as a social phenomenon. In addition to analyzing historical and scientific aspects, the author draws attention to the consequences of state and social transformations that have occurred both on the territory of Russian society and beyond (the introduction of the concept of active aging (2002), pension reform (2019), the COVID-19 epidemic (2020)
The author of the article comes to the conclusion that, depending on the historical epoch, the ideas about older people ranged from social ballast, infirmity to the socio-economic potential of society. However, the epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19 around the world contributed to a partial return of ideas about old age originating in antiquity. Persons of the older generation, due to age changes, began to be considered as a vulnerable social group in need of isolation from society in the conditions of the epidemiological situation caused by COVID-19. Thus, the results of a comparative analysis made on the basis of the author's sociological research conducted in two stages (stage I from 2016 to 2017, stage II from 2020 to 2021) indicate a decrease in the social activity of older people due to the current epidemiological situation in Russia.
About the Author
L. A. Leshchenko
Volgograd State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Leshchenko Lyubov Aleksandrovna, сandidate of the Department of Sociology and Political Science
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Leshchenko L.A. Influence of state transformations on perceptions and age periodization about older persons: a sociological analysis. The Kazan Socially-Humanitarian Bulletin. 2022;(2 (53)):42-47. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2022.2.42-47
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