| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : illustrations. |
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data file rda |
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Key ideas |
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Key ideas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-184) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; The experience of old age; The social construction of old age; The importance of pensions in establishing the modern category 'old age'; Social cues to old age; A cross-cultural comparison of the construction of old age; Standard of living and quality of life in old age; Women and widows; Expectations of old age; The succession of generations; What do we mean by generation?; Generation, community and inequality; The changing experience of different historical cohorts. |
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The interaction of generational expectationsGenerations and social change; The social solidarity of generations; Global crises and old age; Older people and poverty; Old age: population and environmental crises; Is there a global demographic crisis?; Conclusion: older people in an unequal world; Old age, equity and intergenerational conflict?; The issue is not demographic the manufacture of a crisis; Globalisation and the nation state, implications for welfare. |
| Summary |
This book provides an overview of the key issues arising from this demographic change, asking questions such as: * What if any, are the universal characteristics of the ageing experience? * What different ways is it possible to grow old? |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
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Older people -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01199129
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vincent, John A., 1947- Old age. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415268222 0415268230 (DLC) 2002013053 (OCoLC)50422893 |
| ISBN |
0203449924 (electronic book) |
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9780203449929 (electronic book) |
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0415268222 (hardcover) |
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0415268230 (paperback) |
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0203460340 |
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9780203460344 |
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9780415268233 |
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0415268230 |
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9780415268226 |
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0415268222 |
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