Contexts of Ageing Class, Cohort and Community

by Gilleard, Chris; Higgs, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780745629506
• ISBN10: 0745629504
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-02
• Publisher: Polity
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Summary

We live in ageing societies. Age preoccupies governments as much as individuals. Most people reaching retirement no longer face a future of impoverishment and destitution. A new affluence has spread across society and across the life course. Instead of being concerned with the negative connotations of old age, this book acknowledges that for many people looking forward to retirement, later life has changed for the better. With this positive outcome for older people have come policy and social dilemmas for governments and individuals alike.

Author Biography

Chris Gilleard, Director of Psychology at South West London and St. George's Mental Health Trust





Paul Higgs Senior, Lecturer in Sociology at University College, London

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Introduction	1	(20)
2 Class, Modernity and the Lifecourse	21	(17)
3 The Nature of Class in Later Life	38	(24)
4 Cohort and Generation and the Study of Social Change	62	(15)
5 Later Life and the Two Generational Fields of Modernity	77	(24)
6 Community and the Nature of Belonging	101	(24)
7 Community in Later Life	125	(24)
8 Fog-lamps and Leitmotifs	149	(18)
Notes	167	(8)
References	175	(22)
Index	197