| Description |
498 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
I. Overview -- America's aged : who, what, when, and where? / Beth B. Hess -- II. Aging through time and space -- And then we were old / Irving Rosow -- The hunger of old men / David Gutmann -- Old-age poverty in preindustrial New York City / Michael Zimmerman -- Una Anciana / Robert C. Coles -- The timing of our lives / Harley L. Browning -- III. Transitions -- The double standard / Inge Powell Bell -- Male mid-life crisis : a comparative analysis / Orville G. Brim, Jr. -- Middle age and aging / Bernice L. Neugarten -- Grief and bereavement / David Hendin -- IV. Varieties of the aging experience -- Excerpts from Widowhood in an American city / Helena Znaniecki Lopata -- Romance in the SRO / Joyce Stephens -- A million procrustean beds / Elaine M. Brody -- Excerpt from Nobody Ever Died of Old Age : In Praise of Old People / Sharon R. Curtin -- A hiding place to die / Elizabeth Markson -- Excerpts on Black aged from the Urban League News -- One of the best retirement centers / Mary Louise Williams -- Communal life-styles for the old / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The future of family relationships / Rose M. Somerville -- Social enforcement of behavior toward elders in an Appalachian Mountain settlement / John Lozier and Ronald Althouse -- Aged Blacks : a potpourri in the direction of the reduction of inequalities / Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson -- Memories of Gran / Curt Davis -- Three-generation household in the middle class / Ida Lynn -- V. The uses of social gerontology -- The "sexless older years" : a socially harmful stereotype / Isadore Rubin -- Stereotypes of the aged / Beth B. Hess -- Statement of principles / The Gray Panthers -- Social gerontology and the age stratification of society / Matilda White Riley. |
| Subject |
Older people -- United States.
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Aging.
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Gerontology.
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Aging -- Essays.
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| Added Author |
Hess, Beth B., 1928-2003.
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| ISBN |
0878551409. |
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9780878551408 |
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0878556044 (paperback) |
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9780878556045 (paperback) |
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