| Description |
xviii, 281 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Adult development and aging |
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Adult development and aging.
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| Note |
Based on papers presented at the Conference on Aging and the Life Course in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspective, held in Walferdange, Luxembourg, in June 1979 and sponsored jointly by Clark University and the Government of Luxembourg. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
The life course and aging in historical perspective / Tamara K. Hareven -- Biography and identity / Leopold Rosenmayr -- Discontinuities in the study of aging / Leonard I. Pearlin -- Historical experiences in the later years / Glen H. Elder, Jr. -- Resistance at forty-eight / David W. Plath -- The life course approach as a challenge to the social sciences / Daniel Bertaux -- Individual time, social time, and intellectual aging / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- Gerontology in a |
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dynamic society / Lars Tornstam -- Old age, retirement, and the social class structure / Anne-Marie Guillemard -- Some new aspects of aging in Britain / David Eversley. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Congresses.
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Life cycle, Human -- Congresses.
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Aging -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Hareven, Tamara K.
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Adams, Kathleen J.
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Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)
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Conference on Aging and the Life Course in Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Perspective (1979 : Walferdange, Luxembourg)
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| ISBN |
0898621259 |
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