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Growing Up and Growing Old: Ageing and Dependency in the Life Course.

Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Jenny Hockey, Allison James

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Introduction Infantilization as Social Discourse Constructing Personhood Changing Categories of the Child Young at Heart Dependency, Family and Community The Making and Sustaining of Marginality Weakness and Power

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Introduction Infantilization as Social Discourse Constructing Personhood Changing Categories of the Child Young at Heart Dependency, Family and Community The Making and Sustaining of Marginality Weakness and Power

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Introduction Infantilization as Social Discourse Constructing Personhood Changing Categories of the Child Young at Heart Dependency, Family and Community The Making and Sustaining of Marginality Weakness and Power

Key concepts: Dependency (UML), Life course approach, Ageing, Gerontology, History, Psychology, Developmental psychology, Computer science

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