Aging and the Life Course : An Introduction to Social Gerontology
ISBN: 9780073528229 | 0073528226
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 1/13/2010
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This groundbreaking text is the first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and ones experiences, earlier choices, opportunities, and constraints. The text gives students a broad background for understanding current policy debates through a distinctive chapter entitled "Old Age and the Welfare State" (Chapter 11) and through boxed essays in every chapter called "An Issue for Public Policy."
Each chapter also includes a box called "In Their Own Word... MORE" that allows older people to describe their own experiences. In addition, coverage of race, class, gender, and culture is integrated throughout and featured in the "Diversity in the Aging Experience" sections.
Aging and the Life Course is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text in social gerontology. It provides students with a firm grounding in methodological and theoretical issues associated with aging and examines changes in social roles, relationships and the biological and psychological process that occur as people grow older.
It also considers all major life transitions including retirement, widowhood, grandparenting, and changes in living arrangements. In addition, this text considers the economic and political issues that influence the context in which people grow old.
Although the primary focus is on the U.S., considerable material on aging worldwide is included. Unique features include four featured boxes, a life course perspective and an emphasis on inequality by race, ethnicity and gender.
Aging and the Life Course is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text in social gerontology. It provides students with a firm grounding in methodological and theoretical issues associated with aging and examines changes in social roles, relationships and the biological and psychological process that occur as people grow older. It also considers all major life transitions including retirement, widowhood, grandparenting, and changes in living arrangements. In addition, this text considers the economic and political issues that influence the context in which people grow old. Although the primary focus is on the U.S., considerable material on aging worldwide is included. Unique features include four featured boxes, a life course perspective and an emphasis on inequality by race, ethnicity and gender.
| Defining the Field | |
| The Field of Social Gerontology | |
| Life Course Transitions | |
| Theories of Aging | |
| Demography of Aging | |
| Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging | |
| Old Age and the Welfare State | |
| Biological Perspectives on Aging | |
| Psychological Perspectives on Aging | |
| Social Aspects of Aging | |
| ... MORE | |
| Living Arrangements | |
| Work and Retirement | |
| Health Aspects of Later Life | |
| Health and Health Care | |
| Caring for the Frail Elderly | |
| Death, Dying and Bereavement | |
| Aging and Society | |
| The Economics of Aging | |
| Poverty and Inequality | |
| The Politics of Aging | |
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