Age‐associations in British politics: Implications for the sociology of aging

Abstract

The analytic status of age as an axis of social stratification, and particularly of older age as a discrete social category, is of existential importance to the sociology of aging. British social scientific interest in aging goes back at least as far as Booth's (1892Booth's ( , 1894 analyses of pauperism in the 1890s, which drew official attention to poverty