Aging, a contemporary social problem relevant to social science intervention from the perspective of family abandonment.

Abstract

The work raises a reflection on the aging process and how it affects social science interventions from family abandonment, this allows describing how productivity relationships, stereotypes, social representations and emotions show social judgments based on prejudices and imaginary that does not value the social contribution and accentuates the state of vulnerability. This research procedure is proposed from the life history modality with a hermeneutical historical focus over a period of 2 years that describes the social and family crisis that aging faces as it is related to non-productivity, changes in roles and emotions that occur within the framework of the breakdown of family affective bonds, as well as lack of protection, exclusion and isolation, collecting information through 6 in-depth interviews and non-participant observation guides. Therefore, the reflection proposes describing how aging as a contemporary social problem influences social science interventions from family abandonment. Consequently, interventions in the social sciences must recognize aging as an element of transformation and change in the social and family context that consolidates processes based on social ties and representations.