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Inequality and old age / / John A. Vincent



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Autore: Vincent John A. <1947, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Inequality and old age / / John A. Vincent Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 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.: 9910450789903321
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