This article is a critique of the successful aging (SA) paradigm as described in the Rowe and Kahn book, Successful Aging (1998). The article shows how the implicit social theory developed in the book ...
In The Agony of Eros (2017), Byung-Chul Han suggests, “Thinking demands calm. Thinking is an expedition into quietness”. Han, a Korean-born philosopher based in Germany, has emerged as one of Europe’s ...
The increasing integration of the world economy comes with unexpected consequences. What is the social impact of globalization as political and economic forces rapidly change social systems and ...