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Ageing and life course transitions : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams ; foreword by Mortimer Herbert Appley.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Conference on Aging and the Life Course in Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Perspective (1979 : Walferdange, Luxembourg)
- Series:
- Adult development and aging
- Adult development and aging.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging--Congresses.
- Aging.
- Life cycle, Human--Congresses.
- Life cycle, Human.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 281 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Tavistock ; New York : Guilford Press, [1982]
- Contents:
- The life course and aging in historical perspective / Tamara K. Hareven
- Biography and identity / Leopold Rosenmayr
- Discontinuities in the study of aging / Leonard I. Pearlin
- Historical experiences in the later years / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
- Resistance at forty-eight / David W. Plath
- The life course approach as a challenge to the social sciences / Daniel Bertaux
- Individual time, social time, and intellectual aging / Gisela Labouvie-Vief
- Gerontology in a dynamic society / Lars Tornstam
- Old age, retirement, and the social class structure / Anne-Marie Guillemard
- Some new aspects of aging in Britain / David Eversley.
- Notes:
- Based on papers presented at the Conference on Aging and the Life Course in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspective, held in Walferdange, Luxembourg, in June 1979 and sponsored jointly by Clark University and the Government of Luxembourg.
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0898621259
- OCLC:
- 8170448
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