Inequality and old age / / John A. Vincent |
Autore | Vincent John A. <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : 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 |
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 | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821747103321 |
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Old age [[electronic resource] /] / John Vincent |
Autore | Vincent John A. <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | ix, 190 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Collana | Key ideas |
Soggetto topico | Older people - Social conditions |
ISBN |
1-134-49661-3
90-366-1910-6 1-280-07060-9 0-203-44992-4 0-415-26822-2 |
Classificazione | 71.36 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- OLD AGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Key questions -- 1 The experience of old age -- The social construction of old age -- Social regulation of age in Britain -- The importance of pensions in establishing the modern category 'old age' -- Social cues to old age -- A cross-cultural comparison of the construction of old age -- Standard of living and quality of life in old age -- Women and widows -- Expectations of old age -- 2 The succession of generations -- Social groups based on age -- What do we mean by generation? -- Generation, community and inequality -- The changing experience of different historical cohorts -- The interaction of generational expectations -- Generations and social change -- The social solidarity of generations -- 3 Global crises and old age -- What is globalisation, how might it impact on old age? -- Older people and poverty -- Old age: population and environmental crises -- Is there a global demographic crisis? -- Conclusion: older people in an unequal world -- 4 Old age, equity and intergenerational conflict? -- The demographic crisis and national pension schemes -- The issue is not demographic - the manufacture of a crisis -- Globalisation and the nation state, implications for welfare -- Globalisation and the growth of pensions as a force in world financial markets -- Problems with the economic arguments for pension fund capitalism -- Old age and the power of capital -- 5 Consumerism, identity and old age -- Old age and identity -- Diversity in old age -- Identity and life history -- Consumption and identity -- Choice, identity and old age -- 6 Old age, sickness, death and immortality -- Knowledge of ageing and death -- Ageing as the subject of biological science -- The medicalisation of old age -- Avoiding old age -- Individualism and sociology of body.
Old age and death -- Conclusion: old age and ageism -- Liberation of old age -- Notes -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996197704603316 |
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Old age / / John Vincent |
Autore | Vincent John A. <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | ix, 190 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Collana | Key ideas |
Soggetto topico | Older people - Social conditions |
ISBN |
1-134-49661-3
90-366-1910-6 1-280-07060-9 0-203-44992-4 0-415-26822-2 |
Classificazione | 71.36 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- OLD AGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Key questions -- 1 The experience of old age -- The social construction of old age -- Social regulation of age in Britain -- The importance of pensions in establishing the modern category 'old age' -- Social cues to old age -- A cross-cultural comparison of the construction of old age -- Standard of living and quality of life in old age -- Women and widows -- Expectations of old age -- 2 The succession of generations -- Social groups based on age -- What do we mean by generation? -- Generation, community and inequality -- The changing experience of different historical cohorts -- The interaction of generational expectations -- Generations and social change -- The social solidarity of generations -- 3 Global crises and old age -- What is globalisation, how might it impact on old age? -- Older people and poverty -- Old age: population and environmental crises -- Is there a global demographic crisis? -- Conclusion: older people in an unequal world -- 4 Old age, equity and intergenerational conflict? -- The demographic crisis and national pension schemes -- The issue is not demographic - the manufacture of a crisis -- Globalisation and the nation state, implications for welfare -- Globalisation and the growth of pensions as a force in world financial markets -- Problems with the economic arguments for pension fund capitalism -- Old age and the power of capital -- 5 Consumerism, identity and old age -- Old age and identity -- Diversity in old age -- Identity and life history -- Consumption and identity -- Choice, identity and old age -- 6 Old age, sickness, death and immortality -- Knowledge of ageing and death -- Ageing as the subject of biological science -- The medicalisation of old age -- Avoiding old age -- Individualism and sociology of body.
Old age and death -- Conclusion: old age and ageism -- Liberation of old age -- Notes -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910172227403321 |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
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