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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799988003321

Autore

Vincent John A. <1947, >

Titolo

Inequality and old age / / John A. Vincent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : St. Martin's Press, , 1995

ISBN

1-135-36793-0

0-203-29220-0

1-135-36794-9

1-280-06798-5

0-203-21475-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

305.26

305.260973

Soggetti

Aging - Social aspects - United States

Equality - United States

Older people - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Social inequality and the ageing process; Being old in different societies: varieties of ways to be an elderly person; Changing life-course patterns; Old age and the symbolic order; Social theories of inequality: gender, race, class and age; Numbers and justice: who's afraid of an ageing population?; Social theories of ageing; The reproduction of inequality: power, structured dependence and the life course; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An analysis of ageing in relation to identity formation, inequality and stratification. The book outlines a theory of social inequality which encompasses those inequalities associated with old age - in addition to class, gender, race and ethnicity.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses in social stratification and social theory, as well as students and researchers in social policy, social welfare and health with an interest in the study of ageing.