Sharp Coaching

In an environment where the ease and ubiquity of digital publishing is allowing globalised individuals to enter the publishing realm, it's imperative that publishers both embrace and develop their valued functions and roles......

How the functions and roles of publishers are changing in an era of digital ‘disintermediation’ In an environment of prolific digital publishing, it's imperative established publishers embrace and develop their valued functions and roles...

In this essay, I contend that the perception of ageing by various societies revolves around both fixed, chronological markers of time which invoke a particular meaning, along with contradictory and often fluid meanings given to the relativity of age. As Hazan contends, “age is conceived of in both absolute and relative terms” (1994). This presents various contradictions within modern societies, whereby the perception of ageing can be seen to comprise a biologically determined basis upon which precariously resides a socially constructed layer....

Ageing is a social construct Whilst chronological age is fixed, the meanings assigned to them are relative to the context in which we view them…