Complaint Discourse

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Complaint Discourse
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• Dobe Chapter

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aging
complaining
sharing
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complaint discourse
narratives of neglect
entitlement
organization of care
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leveling
complaint
yakity-yak
I am Alive
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public
neglect
social regulator
melodrama
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naturalized
entitlement
valued
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organization of care
construction
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old
N!a
sexuality
powers
great
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participant observation
formal questionnaire
fieldwork
open-ended interview
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universal
aging
constructed
biological
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old-age oriented
non-industrial
experience wisdom sound sense
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adult oriented
industrial
unachieving obsolete
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stages
ritual passing from one stage to the next
shared experiences v.s. kinship collective
obligations
gender
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Van Gennep
Childhood dependence acquisition Adolescence sex
ual maturity preparation Youth higher
education Adulthood work routine Old Age heart
soul vitality with deterioration
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Turner
separation movement away from fixed point in
social structure liminality placed outside
society dangerous reintegration return as new
persons
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waves of existence
evolution of consciousness?
This collective ability to reflect on our
surroundings as well as refer to ourselves as a
distinct part of the environmental realm.
Consciousness is the result of an increasingly
complex self-awareness process and involves a
speculative meditation within ones own mind.
Language allows us to share the nature of these
contemplations in an externalized informational
realm.
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Integral Transformation
CONDITIONS Organic Structure Brain
Power Cultural Background Boomeritis must be
addressed and remedied Technological
Advances Information Age Personal
Conditions Fulfillment, Dissonance, Insight,
Opening