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Ageing
Four Volume Set
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Key Issues for the 21st Century
Key Issues for the 21st Century
February 2008 | 1 624 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
All human societies in all times have been in search of that magic elixir that would keep death at bay. Therefore, the study of ageing is both as old as human life and relatively new. Most all societies have developed senses of when their members become old, but there exist very different schemes by which ageing is determined. This carefully selected four-volume set, compiled by Susan A. McDaniel an expert in the field for more than twenty-five years, looks at ageing through the lenses of anthropology, sociology, feminism and cultural studies, amongst others.
Volume 1 reviews the origins, theories and practical concerns of gerontology and examines the ideas of several contemporary thinkers.
Volume 2 considers the forms and practices that ageing take on in societies today as well as in the past.
Volume 3 collects articles that see ageing as a social process that intersects with class, race, gender, and sexuality.
Volume 4 discusses the key debates that currently dominate the field of gerontology.
This major work is part of the 'Key Issues for the 21st Century' series published by SAGE which brings together collections on those critical issues that will shape our future.
Volume One: Origins, Theories and Practical Concerns
Victor W Marshall
The State of Theory in Aging and the Social Sciences
Martin Kohli
Aging as a Challenge for Sociological Theory
M Minkler and T R Cole
The Political and Moral Economy of Aging: Not Such Strange Bedfellows
P Townsend
The Structural Dependency of the Elderly: A Creation of Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Alan Walker
Towards a Political Economy of Old Age
Peter Laslett
The Third Age, the Fourth Age and the Future
R Havighurst and R Albrecht
A Personal and Social Philosophy of Old Age
Elaine Cumming
Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement
M W Riley
Social Gerontology and the Age Stratification of Society
B L Neugarten, J W Moore and J C Lowe
Age Norms, Age Constraints and Adult Socialization
Karl Mannheim
The Problem of Generations
Bryan Turner
Strategic Generations: Historical Change, Literary Expression and Generational Politics
S Reinharz
Friends or Foes: Gerontological and Feminist Theory
W A Achenbaum and Vern L Bengston
Re-Engaging the Disengagement Theory of Aging: On the History and Assessment of Theory Development in Gerontology
Sara L Arber and Jay Ginn
The Invisibility of Age: Gender and Class in Later Life
Vern L Bengston, E O Burgess and T M Parrott
Theory, Explanation and a Third Generation of Theoretical Development in Social Gerontology
Simon Biggs and Jason L Powell
A Foucauldian Analysis of Old Age and the Power of Social Welfare
Toni Calasanti
Feminist Gerontology and Old Men
Anne-Marie Guillemard
Old Age, Retirement and the Social Class Structure: Towards and Analysis of the Structural Dynamics of the Latter Stage of Life
Jon Hendricks
Generations and the Generation of Theory in Social Gerontology
Sarah Irwin
Later Life, Inequality and Sociological Theory
Julie Ann McMullin
Diversity and the State of Sociological Aging Theory
John F Myles and Deborah Street
Should the Economic Life Course Be Redesigned?
Volume Two: Forms and Practice
Donald O Cowgill
Aging and Modernization: A Revision of the Theory
Lee Guemple
Growing Old in Inuit Society
Peter Collings
"If You Got Everything, It's Good Enough": Perspectives on Successful Aging in a Canadian Inuit Community
H S Sharp
Old Age among the Chipewyan
W A Achenbaum and P N Stearns
Old Age and Modernization
Martin Kohli
The World We Forgot: Historical Views of the Life Course
Zachary Zimmer et al
The Impact of Past Conflicts and Social Disruption in Cambodia on the Current Generation of Older Adults
Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha et al
Attitudes towards Aging: A Comparative Analysis of Young Adults from the United States and Germany
B L Neugarten
The Old and the Young in Modern Societies
K McHugh
Three Faces of Ageism: Society, Image and Place
John F Nussbaum et al
Ageism and Ageist Language across the Life Span: Intimate Relationships and Non-Intimate Interactions
John Alan Lee
What Can Homosexual Aging Studies Contribute to Theories of Aging?
Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard
Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts
Martha B Holstein and Meredith Minkler
Self, Society and the 'New Gerontology'
N Keating et al
Understanding the Caring Capacity of Informal Networks of Frail Seniors: A Case for Care Networks
M J Penning
Hydra Revisited: Substituting Formal for Self- and Informal In-Home Care among Older Adults with Disabilities
J Phillips et al
Social Support in Later Life: A Study of Three Areas
D L Klenmack and L L Roff
Fear of Personal Aging and Subjective Well-Being in Later Life
Volume Three: Key Dimensions
G H Elder, Jr.
Age Differentiation and the Life Course
T K Hareven
Aging and Generational Relations: A Historical and Life Course Perspective
Walter R Heinz
Work and the Life-Course: A Cosmopolitan-Local Perspective
M Evandrou, K Glaser and U Henz
Multiple Role Occupancy in Midlife: Balancing Work and Family Life in Britain
P Moen
Midcourse: Reconfiguring Careers and Community Service for a New Life Stage
J O Arrow
Estimating the Influence of Health as a Risk Factor on Unemployment: A Survival Analysis of Employment Durations for Workers Surveyed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-1990)
Kerry Platman
The Self-Designed Career in Later Life: A Study of Older Portfolio Workers in the United Kingdom
Julie A McMullin and Victor W Marshall
Ageism, Age Relations and Garment Industry Workers in Montreal
Jay Ginn and Sara Arber
Gender, Class and Income Inequalities in Later Life
Susan A. McDaniel
Women and Ageing: A Sociological Perspective
Susan Sontag
The Double Standard of Aging
Robert G Evans et al
Apocalypse No: Population Aging and the Future of Health Care Systems
G Mein et al
Paradigms of Retirement: The Importance of Health and Ageing in the Whitehall II Study
Zachary Zimmer et al
How Indicators of Socioeconomic Status Relate to Physical Functioning of Older Adults in Three Asian Societies
Stephen Katz and Barbara Marshall
New Sex for Old: Lifestyle, Consumerism and the Ethics of Aging Well
V L Bengtson and J A Kuypers
Generational Differences and the Developmental Stake
Debora Carr
"My Daughter Has a Career; I Just Raised Babies": The Psychological Consequences of Women's Intergenerational Social Comparisons
Isabella Aboderin
Decline in Material Family Support for Older People in Urban Ghana, Africa: Understanding Processes and Causes of Change
R Settersten and G Hagestad
What's the Latest? Cultural Age Deadlines for Family Transitions
Yoshinori Kamo and Min Zhou
Living Arrangements of Elderly Chinese and Japanese in the United States
K Markides, J Liang and J S Jackson
Race, Ethnicity and Aging: Conceptual and Methdological Issues
Volume Four: Key Debates
R G Adams and R Blieszner
Aging Well with Friends and Family
J Kennedy and M Minkler
Disability Theory and Public Policy: Implications for Critical Gerontology
E Shapiro and B Havens
Bridging the Knowledge Gap: From Evidence to Policy and Practice That Fosters Seniors' Independence
Jaber F Gubrium and B Wallace
Who Theorizes Age?
Alexandre Sidorenko and Alan Walker
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging: From Conception to Implementation
J S Siegel
On the Demography of Aging
Susan A McDaniel
Demographic Aging as a Guiding Paradigm in Canada's Welfare State
Susan A McDaniel
Intergenerational Transfers, Social Solidarity and Social Policy: Unanswered Questions and Policy Challenges
James F Fries
The Compression of Morbidity
Laura Hurd Clarke
Older Women's Perceptions of Ideal Body Weights: The Tensions between Health and Appearance Motivations for Weight Loss
Jaber F Gubrium and James A Holstein
The Everyday Visibility of the Aging Body
Stephen Katz
Busy Bodies: Activity, Aging and the Management of Everyday Life
Julia Twigg
The Body, Gender and Age: Feminist Insights in Social Gerontology
Jan Baars
the Challenge of Critical Gerontology: The Problem of Social Constitution
C L Estes and C Phillipson
The Globalization of Capital, the Welfare State and Old Age Policy
Carroll Estes
Social Security Privatization and Older Women: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective
Stephen Katz
Growing Older without Aging? Positive Aging, Anti-Ageism and Anti-Aging
M Martinson and M Minkler
Civic Engagement and Older Adults: A Critical Perspective
Susan A McDaniel
Generationing Gender: Justice and the Division of Welfare
Emmanuelle Tulle-Winton
Growing Old and Resistance: Towards a New Cultural Economy of Old Age?
