Ekerdt Downsizing

Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54855-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ekerdt, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Not Forever
1. A Convoy of Possessions Across the Life Course
2. With Aging, How Large a Convoy?
3. Moving Calls the Question
4. Contours of Household Disbandment
5. Gifts to Others
6. Selling Possessions
7. Donations and Discards
8. Emotion and Evaluation
9. Advice
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ekerdt David:
David J. Ekerdt is Professor of Sociology and Gerontology at the University of Kansas and president of the Gerontological Society of America (2017–2018). He is the author of Families in Retirement (SAGE 2012), The Experience of Retirement (ILR Press, 2005), and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Aging (Macmillan, 2000).David Ekerdt is professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of Kansas. He is the editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Aging (2002) and a coeditor of Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles (2009), among other publications. In 2018, he served as president of the Gerontological Society of America.