Lonely older men – gendered construction and experience of
loneliness

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Lonely older men – gendered construction and experience of loneliness

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Lonely older men – gendered construction and experience of loneliness

Autoři

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

50th Anniversary Conference of the British Society of Gerontology in 2021: Ageing Past, Present and Future: Innovation and Change, 2021

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50401 Sociology

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/21:00119830

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

loneliness; old age; older men; exclusion from social relations; gender

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 11. 3. 2022 11:39, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The social networks are essentially gender-based. The idea of loneliness appeared to be incompatible with “traditional” masculinity, the typical picture of loneliness in old age evokes the idea of a widow - frail older women. Old age and loneliness thus together disrupt the hegemonic ideal of masculinity. Loneliness is a subjective feeling and part of a broader concept of social exclusion from social relations, which involves a lack of access to high-quality interpersonal relationships, adequate social networks and sufficient social opportunities. Embedded in the constructionist grounded theory approach, we analyze data from 15 qualitative interviews with older men (age 65+ years) living in the Czech Republic, focusing on the exclusion from social relations as a highly contextualized issue. Our participants are living alone, they are widowers, divorced or never-married men. We closely explore the relationship between biographical events, the intensity of social relations in later life within and beyond the nuclear family and the subjective feelings of loneliness and solitude. We argue that various dimensions of exclusion from social relations must be taken into account as people deal with its impacts both on situational (feeling of loneliness of one person vary in different spatial, temporal and social contexts) as well as a long-term basis (when loneliness is linked e.g. to social marginalization) and gender represents an essential source of perspective. Our paper is part of the GENPATH project (TJ03000002) “A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of Social exclusion in later life, and its consequences for health and wellbeing”.

Návaznosti

TJ03000002, projekt VaV

Název: Genderové cesty exkluze v sociálních vztazích ve stáří pohledem životní dráhy a jejich dopad na zdraví a pohodu. (Akronym: GENPATH)

Investor: Technologická agentura ČR, A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of Social exclusion in later life, and its consequences for health and wellbeing, GENDER-NET Plus

Citovat

PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela a Lucie VIDOVIĆOVÁ. Lonely older men – gendered construction and experience of loneliness. In 50th Anniversary Conference of the British Society of Gerontology in 2021: Ageing Past, Present and Future: Innovation and Change. 2021.

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PETROVÁ KAFKOVÁ, Marcela a Lucie VIDOVI$\backslash$'COVÁ. Lonely older men – gendered construction and experience of loneliness. In \textit{50th Anniversary Conference of the British Society of Gerontology in 2021: Ageing Past, Present and Future: Innovation and Change}. 2021.

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