Handbook of sociology of aging / Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Jaqueline L. Angel, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Settersten, Richard A., Jr., 1964-

Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Series:

Handbooks of sociology and social research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging.

Sociology.

Gerontology.

Older people--Social conditions.

Older people.

Physical Description:

689 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, 2011.

Summary:

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive and engaging treatment of the field over the past 30 years. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, policy makers, and aging professionals alike.

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging contains 45 chapters, authored by nearly 80 renowned experts, each offering a 30-year retrospective on pressing topics related to aging today. With its recurring attention to the social forces that shape human aging, and their social Consequences and policy implications, the contents will be of interest to everyone who cares about what aging means for individuals, families, and societies.

Two forewords highlight the significance the handbook for scholarship and policy-making on aging. The chapters illustrate the field's extraordinary breadth and depth, which have never before been represented in a single volume. They range from foundational matters, including classic and contemporary theories and methods, to topics of longstanding and emergent interest, such as diversity and inequalities, relationships, institutions, economies and governments, vulnerabilities, public health, and care arrangements. The volume closes with a set of personal essays written by a group of senior scholars who share their experiences and hopes, and an essay by the editors that previews some of the most exciting prospects for the decade ahead.

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging showcases the very best that sociology has to offer the study of human aging. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface

Scholarly Forward

Policy Forward

I. HISTORICAL TRENDS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING

Trends in the Sociology of Aging: Thirty Year Observations

II.THEORIES AND METHODS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING

Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociology of Aging

Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies: Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Life Course

Widening the View: Capturing "Unobserved" Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course

III.SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITIES OF AGING

Gender and Aging.-Race, Ethnicity, and Aging

Immigration, Aging, and Health in the United States

Global Aging

Diversity and Family Relations in an Aging Society

IV. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND AGING

Social Relations and Aging

Intergenerational Relations in Later-Life Families

The Midlife Financial Squeeze: Intergenerational Transfers of Financial Resources within Aging Families

The Demography of Unions Among Older Americans, 1980

Present: A Family Change Approach

V.SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND AGING

Rethinking Retirement

Learning and Aging

The Midlife Years: Human Capital and Job Mobility

The Changing Worlds of Family and Work

Developing Age-Friendly Communities: New Approaches to Growing Old in Urban Environments

VI. ECONOMIES, GOVERNMENT, AND AGING

Crises and Old Age Politics.-Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age

Volunteering in Later Life: From Disengagement to Civic Engagement

Business and Aging: The Boomer Effect on Consumers and Marketing

Consumption and Aging

VII. SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES AND AGING

Planning for Old Age

Responses of the Long-Term Care System to Recent Natural Disasters.-Elder Mistreatment

Crime, the Law, and Aging

Aging Veterans: Needs and Provisions

VIII. PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING

Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities?

Mental Health and Aging: A Life-Course Perspective

Aging with HIV/AIDS

Obesity: A Sociological Examination

Religious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk

IX. CARE ARRANGEMENTS AND AGING

Civil Society and Eldercare in Post-Traditional Society

Population Aging, Health Systems, and Equity: Shared Challenges for the United States and Canada.-Long-Term Care: Tradition and Innovation

Caregiving and the Life Course: Connecting the Personal and the Public

X. SOCIOLOGICAL LIVES: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING

Gerontology with a "J": Personal Reflections on Theory-Building in the Sociology of Aging

The Sociology of Aging and the Life Course Comes of Age

Long Time Coming, Not Here Yet: The Possibilities of the Social in Age and Life Course Studies

Looking Back: My Half Century as a Sociologist of Aging and Society

As Time Goes By: Gerontological and Life Course Musings

Studying Age Across Borders

Living the Gendered Life Course in Time and Space

XI. THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING- Sociology of Aging in the Decade Ahead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

1461440955

9781441973733

1441973737

OCLC:

690089598

Publisher Number:

99954841333