Social Structures and Aging Individuals

Continuing Challenges
Herausgeber: Abeles, Ronald P.; Schaie, K. Warner

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

[A] useful reference book. Readers will find themselves returning to chapters again and again... --PsycCritiques This is the 20th and final volume in the "Societal Impact on Aging" series. It focuses on what has been learned over the span of the previous volumes regarding the continuing challenges for older persons in a rapidly changing society and tries to forecast what may be the next set of issues to lie at the intersection of social structures and the individual aging process. The editors therefore invited major organizers of, and contributors to, the 19 earlier volumes to review both the accomplishments and omissions of their efforts, discuss some timely new topics, and provide guidelines for future research and theoretical explanations. The book is divided into five broad topics: health and wellbeing, including the role of religion; personality and cognition; the impact of changes in technology and the work place; issues of socio-cultural change and historical context; and the familial and societal contexts of aging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780826124081
• ISBN-10: 0826124089
• Artikelnr.: 23512278

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Preface
K. Warner Schaie Preface to the first volume in the series: Why this book?
Matilda White Riley Introductory Overview 1. The Waters We Swim: Everyday Social Processes
Macro-Structural Realities and Human Aging
Dale Dannefer Section 1: Health and Well-Being 2. To Act or Not to Act: Using Statistics or Feelings to Reduce Disease Risk
Morbidity and Mortality
Howard Leventhal
Tamara J. Musumeci
and Elaine A. Leventhal 3. Religion
Health
and Health Behavior
Neal Krause 4. Commentary: Assessing Health Behaviors Across Individuals
Situations
and Time
David Almeida
Susan T. Charles
and Shevaun D. Neupert Section 2: Personality and Cognition 5. From Static to Dynamic: The On-going Dialectic About Human Development
Nilam Ram
Sylvia Morelli
Casey Lindberg
and Laura L. Carstensen 6. Those Who Have
Get: Social Structure
Environmental Complexity
Intellectual Functioning and Self-Directed Orientations in the Elderly
Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan 7. Commentary: Personality
Emotion
and Cognition: Some Comments
Freda Blanchard-Fields Section 3: Technology and the Workplace 8. Technology as Multiplier Effect for an Aging Work Force
Neil Charness 9. No Career for You: Is That a Good or Bad Thing? David Ekerdt 10. Commentary: New Employment Structures: Varieties of Impact on Aging Workers
James L. Farr and Alexander R. Schwall Section 4: Sociocultural Change and Historical Context 11. Aging
History
and the Course of Life: Social Structures and Cultural Meanings
Thomas Cole
W. Andrew Achenbaum
and Nathan Carlin 12. Cultural Transformations
History and the Experiences of Aging
Christine Fry 13. The Aging Experience
Social Change
and Television
Rukmalie Jayakody Section 5: Family and Societal Context 14. Religion and Intergenerational Transmission over Time
Vern L. Bengtson
Casey E. Copen
Norella M. Putney
and Merril Silverstein 15. How Have Social Institutional Forces Shaped Family Structure and Well- Being Over the Past 50 Years
Mark D. Hayward 16. Commentary: Marital Trends and Familial Influences: Toward Developing an Understanding of Context
Chalandra Bryant and Michelle Bragg Author Index Subject Index