The ambivalent biographic significance of contemporary uncertainty is analysed here in the transition to the elderly life phase. It is a transition which is being prolonged and individualised, as is happening in the other key biographical transition: from youth to adulthood. The meanings and times of traditional life-marker events - retirement, death of parents, children leaving home – are changing; differentiated approaches to living the present and planning the future are emerging. The paper reconstructs the lines of a research path on these themes, developed first with a qualitative survey and, secondly, with a quantitative survey on present-day 50-60 year-olds in Lombardy, in the light of the specificity of the Italian situation.
Facchini, C., Rampazi, M. (2009). No longer young, not yet old: Biograpghical uncertainty in late-adult temporality. TIME & SOCIETY, 18(2-3), 351-372 [10.1177/0961463X08099949].
No longer young, not yet old: Biograpghical uncertainty in late-adult temporality
FACCHINI, CARLA;
2009
Abstract
The ambivalent biographic significance of contemporary uncertainty is analysed here in the transition to the elderly life phase. It is a transition which is being prolonged and individualised, as is happening in the other key biographical transition: from youth to adulthood. The meanings and times of traditional life-marker events - retirement, death of parents, children leaving home – are changing; differentiated approaches to living the present and planning the future are emerging. The paper reconstructs the lines of a research path on these themes, developed first with a qualitative survey and, secondly, with a quantitative survey on present-day 50-60 year-olds in Lombardy, in the light of the specificity of the Italian situation.
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