The Self and Society in Aging Processes

Herausgeber: Ryff, Carol D.; Marshall, Victor W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on the experience of growing old as it is linked to societal factors. Ryff and Marshall construct this "macro" view of aging in society by bridging disciplines and brining together contributors from all the social sciences. The book is organized into three sections: theoretical perspectives, socioeconomic structures, and contexts of self and society. Leading psychologists, anthropologists, gerontologists, and sociologists present theoretical and empirical advances that forge links between the individual and the social aspects of aging. It is must reading for researchers in all gerontologic specialties, and a valuable text for graduate courses in human development, psychology of aging, and other social aspects of aging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 916g
• ISBN-13: 9780826112675
• ISBN-10: 0826112676
• Artikelnr.: 24510818

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Self and Society Linkages
1. Linking the Self and Society in Social Gerontology: Crossing New Territory
via Old Questions, Carol D. Ryff, Victor W. Marshall, and Philippa J.
Clarke
2. Social Perspectives on the Self in Later Life, Linda K. George
3. Neoteny, Naturalization, and Other Constituents of Human Development, Dale
Dannefer
4. Continuity, Theory, Self, and Social Structure, Robert C. Atchley
5. Identity and Adaptation to the Aging Process, Susan Krauss Whitbourne
6. Self-Development in Adulthood and Aging: The Role of Critical Life Events,
Manfred Diehl
Part 2: Socioeconomic Structures and the Self
7. Practical Consciousness, Social Class, and Self-Concept: A View from
Sociology, Jon Hendricks
8. Educational Attainment and Self-Making in Later Life, Melissa M. Franks, A.
Regula Herzog, Diane Holmberg, and Hazel R. Markus
9. Forging Macro-Micro Linkages in the Study of Psychological Well-Being,
Carol D. Ryff, William J. Magee, Kristen C. Kling, and Edgar H. Wing
10. Income and Subjective Well-Being Over the Life Cycle, Richard A. Easterlin
and Christine M. Schaeffer
Part 3: Contexts of Self and Society: Work and Family
11. Structure and Agency in the Retirement Process: A Case Study of Montreal
Garment Workers, Julia A. McMullin and Victor W. Marshall
12. Gender and Distress in Later Life: The Importance of Lifelong Employment
and Familial Experiences, Lorraine Davies
13. The Caregiving Context: The Intersection of Social and Individual
Influences in the Experience of Family Caregiving, Marsha Mailick Seltzer
and Jan S. Greenberg
14. Linking Social Structure and Self-Concept: Variations in Sense of Mastery,
Marilyn McKean Skaff
15. Intersections of Society, Family, and Self Among Hispanics in Middle and
Later Life, Sonia Miner and Julian Montoro-Rodriguez
16. The Social Psychology of Values: Effects of Individual Development, Social
Change, and Family Transmission Over the Life Span, Robert E.L. Roberts and
Vern L. Bengtson
Index