Gerontology-Aging \ 1-1
Aybeniz Sarıçiçek İpekoğlu, Aybike Dinç, Dolunay Şenol, Ezgi Karmaz, Gıyasettin Yıldız, Gülden Filiz Önal, Mehtap Nur Bitmez, Merve Çetin Kılıç, Özge Gülver, Seda Taş, Yıldız Yavuz “Daily habits, attitudes and practices, or in other words, daily “actions, practices and modes of production” are not seen as the dark, sunless ground of social activities, and this is a theoretical, methodological, classification and observational way of moving from the darkness of the night to the light. When a series of questions can be articulated behind this research, we will have achieved our goal”.
Michel de Certeau

Everyday life is both a production and a consumption area, which becomes ambiguous and ambiguous under the demonstrative lights of modernity, which is treated implicitly as well as being the scene of explicit interventions. In this area, there is a need to reveal what is implicit and to understand the implicit aspects of what is open. For this reason, the study has been carried out in sections by determining the main points that are thought to be effective on the field of daily life. While only theoretical information is given in some of the sections, it is aimed to contribute to the field by carrying out both theoretical and applied field studies in the other section. Working in this direction; By reading the daily life through photography, together with the subjects of culture, music, addiction, crime and fear of crime, happiness, wedding, children, media in particular, television, social media and masculinity identity, ethnography and semiotic analysis methods, which are relatively new in sociology, are used as a method in the field of daily life sociology. aims to contribute.
Velittin Kalınkara Our elderly world has also started to age demographically. Although the phenomenon of aging is mostly accepted as a problem of developed countries, it is now an issue that should be emphasized as much as developed countries. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been a significant increase in the number and proportion of the elderly as a result of the improvement of health conditions, decrease in fertility and increase in quality of life with the effect of industrialization. This increase; It has caused rapid and important changes in family and community life, changed social institutions, behavior and values, and affected the status and functions of the elderly. In this process, while the family structure and social structure changed, the readiness of the family and the institutions did not change in the same direction. While the improvement of living conditions ensures longevity, the economic, social and health-related problems of longevity are generally ignored.
This book will be useful for individuals to equip themselves with basic information about aging and to develop an attitude towards solving problems. It is a source book especially for academicians working in health and social fields, students studying in the field and those who are interested in the subject.