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The task of studying aging is shared between the bio-medical sciences and social sciences: the former are interested in what is known as biological age, in other words the relationships between body condition and the number of years lived; the latter focus on the social organization of the stages of existence, as well as on the social uses of age as a tool for governing populations and as an element in relationships of power. Comprehending biological age from the perspective of the social sciences proves to be heuristic for at least two reasons: studying the effects of social practices on the process of growth and aging in order to better understand what “agebased” discriminations owe to the influence of social representations of biological aging in terms of a decline.
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