Aging From Birth To Death
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Age Homogeneous Groups
Age Inequalities
age norms research
Age Strata
Age Stratification System
Age Systems
age-graded transitions
aging process
birth cohorts
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Changing Age Norms
Cohort Flow
Cross-cohort Differences
cross-cultural aging
death-hastening treatment
demographic transitions
Early Life Transitions
Elderly Ministers
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Ethnic Ancestry
Great Awakening
historical sociology
Intergenerational Social Mobility
life course analysis
Lower Social Class Origins
Marital Fertility
Nonindustrial Societies
Nonmanual Stratum
Nonnormative Transition
Public Retirement System
Puritan Ministers
Relative Odds
social change impact on aging
social gerontology
Subgroup Differentials
Successive Cohorts
Transition Behavior
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367017071
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The ways in which people age from birth to death over the life course depend upon where and when they live. Much evidence has been gathered to demonstrate that aging is not an immutable process; rather, aging varies as social structure varies and changes. But how does the life course vary? Under what conditions of place and time do particular individuals age in particular ways? This book, a companion to Aging from Birth to Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (edited by Matilda White Riley; AAAS Selected Symposium 30; Westview, 1979), addresses these questions from two perspectives. From the cross-cultural perspective, anthropologists and sociologists examine the cultural variability of aging as this variability reveals the nature and extent of social and cultural influences on the aging process, the lives of people of all ages, and the general significance of age norms and age-graded institutions in society. From the cross-temporal perspective, historians, sociologists, and demographers examine the impact of social change both on the process of growing up and growing old and on the place in society of people of all ages. The authors stress that the changing society is composed of people who are aging and who are not only shaped by, but are also continually shaping social institutions, values, and technologies. Thus, the book provides deeper understanding of the aging process, of the likely differences between the lives of past and future generations, and of the potential for optimizing these future lives.
