Vieillissement de la population et créativité sociale

Alban Goguel d’Allondans

Innovations, 2003, vol. 17, issue 1, 157-170

Abstract: The analysis of the relation between population ageing and social creativity date from Antiquity. From which Age an individual can assume responsibility functions in the City? Responsibility is often confused with creativity: to achieve something new, which will be socially recognised. Our society is based on norms which correspond to chronological Age; this limits the (creative) action of individuals. The linear organisation of Age periods is no more adapted to today's society. In rich countries, the consequence of the longer duration of life for the (numerous) middle classes, the formation period up to an advanced Age, the desire to do, learn, achieve, or the need to be recognised through activity or know-how is that, without any reference to Age, the individual would have to be polyvalent and mobile and society would have to recognise those qualities. The example of Nordic countries shows that it's possible (and desirable) to adopt a vocational continuing education policy for each Age groups and to associate a social protection policy and an employment policy which can adapt and renew the competencies for each individual all along it's activity period.

Date: 2003
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