Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs

Contexts of Ageing

Class, Cohort and Community

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Later life is not what it used to be. We live in ageing societies where age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. A new affluence has spread across society and across the lifecourse. For many people looking forward to retirement, later life has changed for the better. But with this positive outcome for older people have come policy and social dilemmas forgovernments and individuals alike.Drawing on a wide range of sources, this bookanalyses the social nature of later life in the context of the history of welfare states, the emergence of consumer society and the growth of individualism. The book argues that the third age, its origins, identity and contradictions are central to understanding the future of our society.Contexts of Ageing is certain to stimulate academic debate. It is also appropriate for adoption on a range of courses. The book is written in a lively and accessible way, giving it appeal to upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in sociology, social policy and health studies. Students and professionals working in the areas of nursing, health care and social gerontology will also find this book of interest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9780745629506
• ISBN-10: 0745629504
• Artikelnr.: 22481686

Autorenporträt

Chris Gilleard, Director of Psychology at South West London and St. George's Mental Health Trust Paul Higgs Senior, Lecturer in Sociology at University College, London

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Class, Modernity and the Lifecourse.
Chapter 3. The Nature of Class in Later Life.
Chapter 4. Cohort and Generation and the Study of Social Change.
Chapter 5. Later life and the two generational fields of modernity.
Chapter 6. Community and the nature of belonging.
Chapter 7. Community in Later Life.
Chapter 8. Fog-lamps and Leitmotifs.
Notes.
References.
Index