老龄社会背景下的老龄社会学研究

Study on Sociology of Ageing Against the Background of the Ageing Society

随着我国人口老龄化的快速发展,加强老龄科学研究被提上议事日程,老龄社会学作为老龄科学的组成部分得以发展。老龄社会学由老年社会学发展而来。在社会老年学的诸多分支学科中,老年社会学的发展相对迟缓。从研究对象、时代背景、研究层次等方面对老龄社会学和老年社会学的差异进行了分析,就价值判断如何影响老龄社会学的基本假设和理论建构进行了讨论,并以老龄社会学的重要议题"积极应对人口老龄化""老年人家庭照顾"和"老年教育"为例作了进一步的探讨和说明。

With the rapid evolvement of China’s population ageing,the strengthening of research on ageing has been put on the agenda,and sociology of ageing,an integral part of ageing sciences,has also developed.The sociology of ageing has evolved from geriatric sociology.Among all subdivisions of social gerontology,the development of geriatric sociology is somewhat slow.This paper analyzed the differences between sociology of ageing and social gerontology from aspects such as research objects,background and research level,and discussed the way value judgment influenced fundamental assumptions and theoretical constructions of sociology of ageing.Then this paper opened up further discussions on three important topics of sociology of ageing:actively responding to population ageing,family care of the elderly,and education for older people.