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Becoming and Being Old
Sociological Approaches to Later Life
Edited by:
- Bill Bytheway
- Teresa Keil - Loughborough University, UK
- Patricia Allatt - Teesside University, UK
October 1990 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
Introduction
PART ONE: BECOMING OLD
Cherrie Stubbs
Property Rites? An Investigation of Tenure Change in Middle Age
Frank Laczko
Between Work and Retirement
Tom Schuller
Work-Ending
Jonathan Long
A Part to Play
PART TWO: BEING OLD
Sara Arber and G Nigel Gilbert
Transitions in Caring
Bill Bytheway
Poverty, Care and Age
Maria Evandrou and Christina R Victor
Differentiation in Later Life
Richard Wall
The Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Europe in the 1980s
PART THREE: OLD AGE
Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth
Ageing and Old Age
Ken Blakemore
Does Age Matter? The Case of Old Age in Minority Ethnic Groups
