All Outputs (2)

De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement (2015)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2016). De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement. Ageing & Society, 36(07), 1407-1433. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15000458

Departing from the proposition that, in the sociological debate about whether there has been a shift towards a de-standardised lifecourse in advanced economies, little attention has been devoted to the infrastructural arrangements that would support... Read More about De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement.

Unsettling Standards: the biological age controversy (2015)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2015). Unsettling Standards: the biological age controversy. The Sociological Quarterly, 56(1), 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/tsq.12079

One key debate within the sociology of aging and the life course over the past decade has been focused on understanding the extent to which there has been a shift from a reliance on chronological age to segment the life course and ascertain age-speci... Read More about Unsettling Standards: the biological age controversy.