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Social Stratification Schemes and the Older Populations of Indonesia

 
Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Hilary Term Seminar Series
Convenor: Kenneth Howse

Thursday 16th February,  12:30 – 14:00 pm

Dr. Philip Kreager, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford

‘Social Stratification Schemes and the Older Populations of Indonesia’
 

Philip Kreager is Lecturer in Human Sciences at Somerville College, Tutor and Director of Studies in Human Sciences at Keble College, and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Department of Sociology, Oxford.  He is a Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group and Research Associate, School of Anthropology, Oxford; Academic Visitor of the Centre for Ageing Research, Southampton University; and Honorary Professor, Institute of Ageing, University of Indonesia. During 1999-2007 he was Director of Ageing in Indonesia, a multi-site longitudinal study of ageing in three communities, supported by the Welcome Trust. Recent work includes study of the nexus of family and civil society organizations in the context of deficient state support, and impacts of migration on older people’s networks

Dr Kreager's research interests include:

  • Anthropological Demography: Comparative demographic systems with particular reference to the construction of collective identity, family and kin systems, age and social structure. Development of combined qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

  • Population Ageing: Understanding the ageing process as part of adaptive mechanisms characteristic of local cultures and social structures. Comparative analysis of Asian and European family systems, with particular reference to Indonesia: networks, socio-economic strata, the role of Islam and civil society, childlessness, migration, gender.

  • History of Population Theory and Analysis: The formation of population concepts, models and measures before 1800 in light of contemporaneous political, social and scientific change. Transformation of early modern population thinking in the 19th and early 20th century under the rise of the nation-state. Implications of Darwinian population thinking for demography and the Human Sciences.
     

Further information:

> Philip Kreager's webpage

> Seminars programme

> Download Seminars Flyer [pdf]


Venue:

Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Thursdays 12.30 to 2.00 p.m.
Seminar Room
Wolsey Hall, 66 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6PR

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