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Aging and the Life Course: Social and Cultural Contexts provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the study of aging and the life course from a distinctly sociological perspective. It explores the sociocultural dimensions of aging while encouraging critical thinking about the diversity of aging experiences, societal attitudes toward older adults the politics and economics of growing old, and end-of-life resources.
List of contents
Section I: Foundational Concepts
Chapter 1: Global Contexts of Aging: A Sociological Perspective
Chapter 2: Sociological Imagination and the Life Course
Chapter 3: The Social Construction of Age, Aging, and Life Stages
Section II: Experiences of Later-Life
Chapter 4: Sociocultural Contexts of Ageism
Chapter 5: Sociocultural Contexts of Later-Life Health & Well-Being
Chapter 6: Later-Life Differences & Inequalities: At the Intersections
Section III: Contemporary Conditions of Aging
Chapter 7: Work and the Sociology of Retirement
Chapter 8: Social Connection, Marriage, and Intimacy in Later Life
Chapter 9: Later-Life Families, Caregiving, & Intergenerational Exchanges
Section IV: Aging and Social Change
Chapter 10: Generations, Conflict, and Societal Change
Chapter 11: Aging, Place, and Built Environments
Chapter 12: End-of-Life and the Future of Aging
About the author
Deborah Lowry is associate professor of sociology in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Montevallo. She was an NIH (National Institutes of Health) post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center. She has authored or co-authored several publications in journals such as Teaching Sociology, Population Research and Policy and The Journal of Family Studies, a chapter in Otherhood: Feminist Perspectives on Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness, and a chapter in Social Problems in Action (forthcoming).
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Aging and the Life Course: Social and Cultural Contexts provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the study of aging and the life course from a distinctly sociological perspective.
