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Relational Sociology: Contributions to Understanding Residential Relocation Decisions in Later Life

Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby, Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby

The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology, Pages: 621 - 639

Swansea University Author: Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby

DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_31

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Policy discourse and service provisions targeted at older people reflect a globalised emphasis which portrays individuals as empowered consumers, able to exercise agency in diverse markets when it comes to choosing products and services to meet their health and social care requirements. This emphasi...

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Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology
ISBN: 978-3-319-66004-2 978-3-319-66005-9
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2018
Online Access: http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/relational/palgrave-handbook-of-relational-sociology/
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description Policy discourse and service provisions targeted at older people reflect a globalised emphasis which portrays individuals as empowered consumers, able to exercise agency in diverse markets when it comes to choosing products and services to meet their health and social care requirements. This emphasis finds its routes in neo-liberal thinking which gives primacy to individual, voluntaristic, rational choices embedded within decision-making predicated on intentional, consequential action. Viewed through a relational lens, this chapter challenges the neo-liberal perspective by elaborating a critical theoretical, and empirically tested alternative interpretive framework; this is posited on the possibilities for more complex and nuanced experiences of social action, shaped by temporal, transactional processes evolving with others through complex figurations of interdependent relationship. Using qualitative data from older people who have experienced a later life residential relocation, analysis of their narratives is undertaken using the author's interpretive framework which draws on concepts of temporality, transactional process and interdependencies to make sense of their experiences. The chapter's overarching ontological aim is two-fold - to demonstrate the relevance of relational sociology as an orientation with potential to offer a more sophisticated and extensive understanding of the social phenomenon of later life residential relocation decision-making as a transactional processes; and to enhance theory in the field of gerontology, where scholars have tended to focus on theorizing later life social phenomena through the lens of macro-level structural determinism and its constraining influence on individual agency, or the micro-level focus of humanistic approaches. The field of gerontology has therefore yet to adopt, in any depth, the ontological insights provided by relational sociology.
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