%0 Journal Article
%T Back to my old self and life restarting: Biographies of ageing in BeckĄŻs risk society
%A Cassie Curryer
%A Julie E. Byles
%A Mel Gray
%J Journal of Sociology
%@ 1741-2978
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1440783318766150
%X Drawing on free-text survey comments from the Australian Longitudinal Study of WomenĄŻs Health (ALSWH), this article explores themes of transition and change in the lives of 150 women baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1951) in relation to BeckĄŻs theories of the risk society, reflexive modernisation and individualisation. Few studies have explicitly explored ageing through BeckĄŻs theoretical lenses. However, BeckĄŻs emphasis on interactional processes of social, individual and structural change has much to offer for sociological studies of ageing. A key premise is that of complex adaptation and change as people age, with focus on the socio-political contexts in which the post-Second World War baby boomer generation will live out their later years
%K baby boomer generation
%K change processes
%K complexity
%K individualisation
%K older women
%K reflexive modernisation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1440783318766150