| Description |
xiii, 483 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell readers in sociology |
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Blackwell readers in sociology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein -- Conceptualizing the Aging Experience -- The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images / Haim Hazan -- The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation / Haim Hazan -- Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement / Elaine Cumming -- A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology / Arnold M. Rose -- A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging / Robert C. Atchley -- Aging and Identity -- A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness between Fifty and Sixty Years Old / David A. Karp -- Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts / Deborah Kestin Van Den Hoonard -- The Ageless Self / Sharon R. Kaufman -- Work and Retirement -- Retirement as a Social Role / Robert C. Atchley -- The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support in a Modern Life Passage / Joel Savishinsky -- "One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels" / Joyce Stephens -- "Making It" / Joyce Stephens -- Interpersonal Relationships -- Friendship Styles / Sarah H. Matthews -- The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life / Doris Francis -- Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People / Janet Finch, Jennifer Mason -- Living Arrangements -- Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885 / Emily K. Abel -- An Old Age Community / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home / Pia C. Kontos -- The Aging Body. |
| Processing Action |
Legacy 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Older people -- Social conditions.
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Aging.
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Aged. (DNLM)D000368
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Aging. (DNLM)D000375
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Aging. (OCoLC)fst00800293
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Older people -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01199129
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Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
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Velhice (aspectos sociais)
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Idosos (condições sociais)
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Envelhecimento.
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Identidade cultural.
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| Added Author |
Gubrium, Jaber F.
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Holstein, James A.
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| ISBN |
063121707X (hb ; alk. paper) |
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9780631217077 (hb ; alk. paper) |
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0631217088 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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9780631217084 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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