Social-structural lag revisited

Peine, Alexander; Neven, Louis

doi:10.4017/gt.2011.10.3.002.00

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“…Coming from a background in nursing studies, they explore how STS insights can enrich the education of carers, and make care technologies more acceptable for care workers. Their paper uses the ideas of domestication and "domesticability" (Peine and Neven, 2011) to highlight how an STS perspective resonates well with carers' need for tinkering and adjusting assistive devices with their daily routines and practices. Based on interviews with carers and care service managers, they show how this need for tinkering is often suppressed when assistive technologies are implemented.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Vice versa, in the emerging interdisciplinary scientific community of Gerontechnology, social science insights about age, ageing and later life are typically regarded as a design input. As an interesting object for social science analyses in itself, however, the transformative effects of science and technology have barely received empirical and theoretical attention (Östlund, 2004;Peine and Neven, 2011;Jaeger, 2005b;Mortensen et al, forthcoming).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Yet they often also defy existing stereotypes of inept and vulnerable technology users that are set apart primarily by the problems they have in engaging with science and technology as passive recipients (Joyce and Loe, 2010;Brittain et al, 2010;Östlund and Linden, 2011;Loe, 2011). As technology users, current generations of older persons are characterized by a simultaneous need to create new patterns of meaning and sense of self for retirement and later life on the one hand, and to cope with emerging illness and frailty on the other (Peine and Neven, 2011;. Failing to address this simultaneous identity as agents and recipients of scientific and technological change constitutes a risk to produce a triple loss-older persons do not get the technologies they need, companies fail to tap into the opportunities of the emerging silver market, and the government subsidies for gerontechnological innovations result in prototypes and experiments that do not spread or scale.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Science, technology and the ‘grand challenge’ of ageing—Understanding the socio-material constitution of later life

Peine

Faulkner

Jæger

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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In this paper, we introduce the themes addressed and the approaches used in this special issue. We start by briefly discussing the state of the art in research and policy making related to science, technology and ageing. We argue that an important gap characterizes this state of the art: current approaches do not consider material practice and materiality to be an inherent part of later life as constituted in contemporary societies. Science and Technology Studies (STS) provide both the theories and methods to address this gap, and thus deploy a theoretical and empirical understanding of science, technology and ageing that captures how later life co-evolves with the practices of technology use and design. We briefly discuss how the articles in the collection each contribute to such an understanding across various locations. We conclude that, together, the contributions specify a perspective on the socio-material constitution of later life that implicates an important agenda for the future study of ageing and gerontechnology innovation.

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Section: Overview Of Contributionsmentioning

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confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Science, technology and the ‘grand challenge’ of ageing—Understanding the socio-material constitution of later life

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Faulkner

Jæger

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…We have shown that the ageing-and-innovation discourse is very popular [3,4,17,22,23]. It is used widely in both policy and engineering circles, and it circulates in political documents of the highest level.…”

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From Triple Win to Triple Sin: How a Problematic Future Discourse is Shaping the Way People Age with Technology

Neven

Peine

2017

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Abstract:This essay provides a critical analysis of the ageing-and-innovation discourse. The ageing-and-innovation discourse is a key rhetorical structure that legitimizes very large investments in technologies for older people. In this discourse, ageing is positioned as an imminent crisis that will affect whole societies, both socially and economically. Investing in technological solutions is, in turn, positioned as a solution that generates benefits on a societal, economical and individual level. This discourse is used to legitimize investment, rally support and reduce uncertainty. We contend that there are three problems with the ageing-and-innovation discourse. First, it legitimizes investment in every technology for older people and thus provides no means of discriminating between useful and non-useful technologies. Second, this discourse presupposes a very negative view of ageing that jars with the positive view of ageing that many older people have, which, in turn, leads to problems with acceptance of these technologies. Third, the ageing-and-innovation discourse creates a moral high ground that makes it hard for opponents to disagree with this discourse. The ageing-and-innovation discourse is a successful rhetorical device, but it ultimately hinders the development of suitable technologies that fit in with the lives of older people and thus needs to be reconsidered by scientists, policy makers and industry.

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“…This assumption caused tensions as to how participants and older people give meaning to this policy in practice. Presuppositions about ageing, about older adults as passive recipients of care and about technology as a 'fixer' for a lack of autonomy and independency have been criticized before within STS and feminist work (Joyce and Loe 2010;López Gómez 2015;Neven 2010;Peine and Neven 2011;. Following their insights and the findings of this thesis, it can be argued that the ideal of 'normalising' older adults as independent citizens as a starting point for policymaking should be reassessed.…”

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The making of ageing-in-place

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Social-structural lag revisited

Cited by 31 publications

References 54 publications

Science, technology and the ‘grand challenge’ of ageing—Understanding the socio-material constitution of later life

Science, technology and the ‘grand challenge’ of ageing—Understanding the socio-material constitution of later life

From Triple Win to Triple Sin: How a Problematic Future Discourse is Shaping the Way People Age with Technology

The making of ageing-in-place

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