Inequality and old age / / John A. Vincent

• Autore: Vincent John A. <1947, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : St. Martin's Press, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.26; 305.260973
• Soggetto topico: Aging - Social aspects - United States; Equality - United States; Older people - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Inequality and old age
• ISBN: 1-135-36793-0; 0-203-29220-0; 1-135-36794-9; 1-280-06798-5; 0-203-21475-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910799988003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II