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9780803925472

Later Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803925472

  • ISBN10:

    0803925476

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1986-03-01
  • Publisher: Sage Pubns
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Summary

Later Life deals with leading issues in the social psychology of aging. The central aims of the book are: to introduce an interpretive perspective to studies of aging, based on symbolic interactionism and phenomenology; to offer a critique of prevailing theoretical and structural-functional approaches in social gerontology; and to recognize that aging individuals are immersed in social structural contexts that have their own historical and social imperatives and dynamics. The contributors, all leading social psychologists in the field of aging, were encouraged to develop their arguments at length and to be daring and innovative in their theorizing.

Table of Contents

Dominant and Emerging Paradigms in the Social Psychology of Aging
The Subjective Construction of Self and Society
An Agenda for Life-Span Research
Socialization in Old Age
Some Contributions of Symbolic Interaction to the Study of Growing Old
A Sociological Perspective on Aging and Dying
The Old Person as Stranger
Social Networks and Social Support
Implications for Later Life
Friendships in Old Age
Biography and Circumstance
The Social Construction of the Life Course
Comparative Perspectives on the Microsociology of Aging
Methodological Problems and Theoretical Issues
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