Publication details
Trade-offs and “unbearability” in narratives of men´s ageing
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation focuses on selected significant transitions in the lives of men as they age and the institutions within which these changes take place. The (social) determination and individual agency combined with descriptions of "the natural order of things" recur in interviews with aging Czech men, legitimizing their trade-offs and men-to-men scores in reviewing their own lives as they age. The presented analysis is grounded in 80 interviews with men, collected in 2023-24, thematizing intersections of their ageing, social status and gender in an explorative sociological inquiry in several social environments. This presentation aims to provide one of the synergies overarching the distinctive fieldwork settings conveyed by the research study. The approaches of critical studies on men and masculinities drive the analytical focus on contrasting privileges and marginalization processes in the narratives of life transitions. A mixture of the "unbearable" trend and trade-offs related to getting older as men is combined here with particular experiences of structural "easiness". Such as those in keeping autonomy, having choices and resources at hand. |
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