Keming Yang

Loneliness

A Social Problem

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on vast sources of data including literary works, case studies, and large-scale sample surveys covering a broad spectrum of countries (Europe and beyond), the empirical research of this study produces and presents simple but effective evidence for the social nature and variations of loneliness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781138553026
• ISBN-10: 1138553026
• Artikelnr.: 55440947

Autorenporträt

Keming Yang is an associate professor of sociology at Durham University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Chapter 1 Loneliness: Is it a problem?
Chapter 2 Loneliness as a social problem
Chapter 3 Loneliness: A problem only for older people?
Chapter 4 Aloneness, Loneliness, and Solitude
Chapter 5 Lonely among others
Chapter 6 Loneliness across social groups
Chapter 7 Loneliness and class
Chapter 8 National disposition towards loneliness
Chapter 9 Tackling loneliness: Messages to the lonely and the non-lonely
Chapter 10 Conclusions and reflections
Bibliography
Index