Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 252 g
Sociological Approaches to Later Life
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 252 g
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8171-3
Verlag: Sage Publications UK
In this volume contributors examine the assumptions normally made about the elderly and offer differing sociological perspectives on becoming and being old, and on the concept of age itself. Instead of seeing the elderly in terms of needs, they offer alternative analyses in light of class, gender and race. Examining the life-cycle perspective on old age, they show how retirement from the workforce is only one aspect of becoming old, and arguably one which is important for only a minority of the ageing population.
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Introduction
PART ONE: BECOMING OLD
Property Rites? An Investigation of Tenure Change in Middle Age - Cherrie Stubbs
Between Work and Retirement - Frank Laczko
Becoming `Old' in the 1980s
Work-Ending - Tom Schuller
Employment and Ambiguity in Later Life
A Part to Play - Jonathan Long
Men Experiencing Leisure through Retirement
PART TWO: BEING OLD
Transitions in Caring - Sara Arber and G Nigel Gilbert
Gender, Life Course and the Care of the Elderly
Poverty, Care and Age - Bill Bytheway
A Case Study
Differentiation in Later Life - Maria Evandrou and Christina R Victor
Social Class and Housing Tenure Cleavages
The Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Europe in the 1980s - Richard Wall
PART THREE: OLD AGE
Ageing and Old Age - Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth
Reflections on the Postmodern Life Course
Does Age Matter? The Case of Old Age in Minority Ethnic Groups - Ken Blakemore
