Handbook of the Sociology of Aging

by Settersten, Richard A., Jr.; Angel, Jacqueline L.

• ISBN13: 9781441973733
• ISBN10: 1441973737
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-17
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field over the past 30 years. The volume represents an indispensable source of the freshest and highest standard scholarship for scholars, policy makers, and aging professionals alike. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging contains 45 far-reaching chapters, authored by nearly 80 of the most renowned experts, on the most pressing topics related to aging today. With its recurring attention to the social forces that shape human aging, and the social consequences and policy implications of it, the contents will be of interest to everyone who cares about what aging means for individuals, families, and societies. The chapters of the Handbook of Sociology of Aging illustrate the field's extraordinary breadth and depth, which has never before been represented in a single volume. Its contributions address topics that range from foundational matters, such as classic and contemporary theories and methods, to topics of longstanding and emergent interest, such as social diversity and inequalities, social relationships, social institutions, economies and governments, social vulnerabilities, public health, and care arrangements. The volume closes with a set of personal essays by senior scholars who share their experiences and hopes for the field, and an essay by the editors that provides a roadmap for the decade ahead. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging showcases the very best that sociology has to offer the study of human aging.

Table of Contents

Historical Trends in the Sociology of Aging
Trends in the Sociology of Aging: Thirty Year Observations	p. 3
Theories and Methods in the Sociology of Aging
Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociology of Aging	p. 17
Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies: Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Life Course	p. 35
Widening the View: Capturing ôUnobservedö Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course	p. 51
Social Diversity and Inequalities of Aging
Gender and Aging	p. 71
Race, Ethnicity, and Aging	p. 83
Immigration, Aging, and Health in the United States	p. 103
Global Aging	p. 117
Diversity and Family Relations in an Aging Society	p. 131
Social Relationships and Aging
Social Relations and Aging	p. 145
Intergenerational Relations in Later-Life Families	p. 161
The Midlife Financial Squeeze: Intergenerational Transfers of Financial Resources Within Aging Families	p. 179
The Demography of Unions Among Older Americans, 1980-Present: A Family Change Approach	p. 193
Social Institutions and Aging
Rethinking Retirement	p. 213
Learning and Aging	p. 229
The Midlife Years: Human Capital and Job Mobility	p. 245
The Changing Worlds of Family and Work	p. 263
Developing Age-Friendly Communities: New Approaches to Growing Old in Urban Environments	p. 279
Economies, Government, and Aging
Crises and Old Age Policy	p. 297
Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age	p. 321
Volunteering in Later Life: From Disengagement to Civic Engagement	p. 333
Business and Aging: The Boomer Effect on Consumers and Marketing	p. 351
Consumption and Aging	p. 361
Social Vulnerabilities and Aging
Planning for Old Age	p. 379
Responses of the Long-Term Care System to Recent Natural Disasters	p. 399
Elder Mistreatment	p. 415
Crime, the Law, and Aging	p. 431
Aging Veterans: Needs and Provisions	p. 445
Public Health and Aging
Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities?	p. 465
Mental Health and Aging: A Life-Course Perspective	p. 477
Aging with HIV/AIDS	p. 495
Obesity: A Sociological Examination	p. 513
Religious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk	p. 533
Care Arrangements and Aging
Civil Society and Eldercare in Posttraditional Society	p. 549
Population Aging, Health Systems, and Equity: Shared Challenges for the United States and Canada	p. 563
Long-Term Care: Tradition and Innovation	p. 583
Caregiving and the Life Course: Connecting the Personal and the Public	p. 603
Sociological Lives: Personal Reflections on the Sociology of Aging
Gerontology with a ôJö: Personal Reflections on Theory-Building in the Sociology of Aging	p. 619
The Sociology of Aging and the Life Course Comes of Age	p. 627
Long Time Coming, Not Here Yet: The Possibilities of the Social in Age and Life Course Studies	p. 633
Looking Back: My Half Century as a Sociologist of Aging and Society	p. 639
As Time Goes By: Gerontological and Life Course Musings	p. 645
Studying Age Across Borders	p. 651
Living the Gendered Life Course in Time and Space	p. 655
The Future of the Sociology of Aging
Sociology of Aging in the Decade Ahead	p. 661
Index	p. 673
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