Capturing Ageing Embodiment

Abstract

So far we have established that ageing is an embodied experience and that the ageing body plays a key role in sociality and the socio-cultural positioning of ageing actors. The debate still going on in the sociology of the body regarding the status of the body in social action can now be transcended as the body is both object — socially constructed, the bearer of prevalent forms of subordination, codified in well-worn narratives — and subject — a body that makes things happen, within which experiences are generated, the source and site of oneself, the source of tolerance of or resistance to attempts at control.