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020 _a9781441973733 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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035 _a(OCoLC)690089598
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_bHAN 2011
245 0 0 _aHandbook of sociology of aging /
_cRichard A. Settersten, Jr., Jaqueline L. Angel, editors.
260 _aNew York :
_bSpringer,
_c2011.
300 _axxv, 689 p. :
_bill. ;
_c27 cm.
490 1 _aHandbooks of sociology and social research
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _tTOC
_a Preface -- Scholarly Forward -- Policy Forward -- I. HISTORICAL TRENDS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING -- Trends in the Sociology of Aging: Thirty Year Observations -- II. THEORIES AND METHODS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING -- Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociology of Aging -- Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies: Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Life Course -- Widening the View: Capturing "Unobserved" Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course -- III. SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITIES OF AGING -- Gender and Aging.-Race, Ethnicity, and Aging -- Immigration, Aging, and Health in the United States -- Global Aging -- Diversity and Family Relations in an Aging Society -- IV. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND AGING -- Social Relations and Aging -- Intergenerational Relations in Later-Life Families -- The Midlife Financial Squeeze: Intergenerational Transfers of Financial Resources within Aging Families -- The Demography of Unions Among Older Americans, 1980 -- Present: A Family Change Approach -- V. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND AGING -- Rethinking Retirement -- Learning and Aging -- The Midlife Years: Human Capital and Job Mobility -- The Changing Worlds of Family and Work -- Developing Age-Friendly Communities: New Approaches to Growing Old in Urban Environments -- VI. ECONOMIES, GOVERNMENT, AND AGING -- Crises and Old Age Politics.-Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age -- Volunteering in Later Life: From Disengagement to Civic Engagement -- Business and Aging: The Boomer Effect on Consumers and Marketing -- Consumption and Aging -- VII. SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES AND AGING -- Planning for Old Age -- Responses of the Long-Term Care System to Recent Natural Disasters.-Elder Mistreatment -- Crime, the Law, and Aging -- Aging Veterans: Needs and Provisions -- VIII. PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING -- Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities? -- Mental Health and Aging: A Life-Course Perspective -- Aging with HIV/AIDS -- Obesity: A Sociological Examination -- Religious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk -- IX. CARE ARRANGEMENTS AND AGING -- Civil Society and Eldercare in Post-Traditional Society -- Population Aging, Health Systems, and Equity: Shared Challenges for the United States and Canada.-Long-Term Care: Tradition and Innovation -- Caregiving and the Life Course: Connecting the Personal and the Public -- X. SOCIOLOGICAL LIVES: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING -- Gerontology with a "J": Personal Reflections on Theory-Building in the Sociology of Aging -- The Sociology of Aging and the Life Course Comes of Age -- Long Time Coming, Not Here Yet: The Possibilities of the Social in Age and Life Course Studies -- Looking Back: My Half Century as a Sociologist of Aging and Society -- As Time Goes By: Gerontological and Life Course Musings -- Studying Age Across Borders -- Living the Gendered Life Course in Time and Space -- XI. THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING- Sociology of Aging in the Decade Ahead.
520 _aThis single-volume handbook, covering the breadth of the field for the first time, presents a new framework for understanding the sociology of aging. It examines each element from three core perspectives: social phenomena, the life course, and social policy.
526 _aSociology
590 _aSagar Shahanawaz
650 0 _aAging.
_919984
650 0 _aSociology.
_919985
650 0 _aGerontology.
_915477
650 0 _aOlder people
_xSocial conditions.
_919986
700 1 _aSettersten, Richard A.
_919987
700 1 _aAngel, Jacqueline L.
_919988
856 4 2 _3WorldCat details
_uhttp://www.worldcat.org/title/handbook-of-sociology-of-aging/oclc/690089598&referer=brief_results
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