| Description |
ix, 241 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index. |
| Summary |
"Divided into three parts, the first two parts of the book offer a critical appraisal of traditional and postmodern theoretical approaches to the life course, arguing for a more synthetic approach which takes fuller account of recent academic work on the body. The final part then explores the usefulness of this approach in the substantive areas of sex, gender, family, kinship, work and consumption, thus addressing our experience of changing age-based identities across the life course." "This body of interdisciplinary material relating to the life course as a whole will provide undergraduates with new theoretical perspectives on this fascinating subject."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Structure, Agency and the Life Course -- 1. Problematising Ageing and Identity -- 2. Structuring of Age -- 3. Experience of Time's Passage -- Pt. II. Understanding the Western Life Course -- 4. Histories of the Life Course -- 5. Making of Life-course Histories -- 6. Postmodern Lives? -- Pt. III. Embodying the Life Course -- 7. Revitalising the Life Course -- 8. Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Life Course -- 9. Family Sociality across the Life Course -- 10. Production and Consumption across the Life Course -- 11. Time, Memory and the Life Course. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Group identity.
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| Indexed Term |
Envejecimiento Aspectos sociales. |
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Envejecimiento Aspectos psicológicos. |
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Identidad colectiva. |
| Subject |
Aging -- psychology.
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Social Identification.
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Life Change Events.
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| Added Author |
James, Allison.
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| ISBN |
0333912837 cloth |
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9780333912836 cloth |
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0333912845 paper |
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9780333912843 paper |
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