A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age / Peter Laslett.
- Title
- A fresh map of life : the emergence of the Third Age / Peter Laslett.
- Published by
- Houndmillls, Basisngstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996.
- Author
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- Description
- xiv, 311 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This study argues that the third age - beyond the breadwinning and child-rearing years - is that of greatest personal fulfilment, the apogee of life. Combining social history, sociology and philosophy, this book provides new thinking on one of the crucial changes in the modern world.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Contents
- 1. A New Division of the Life Course -- 2. How Long Can Anyone Go on Living? -- 3. The Age of Britain as a Country: Britain Be Your Age! -- First Adjuration -- 4. The Age of the Present British Population, with a Glimpse into its Future: Britain Be Your Age! -- Second Adjuration -- 5. The Rectangular Survival Curve and the Secular Shift in Ageing -- 6. The Emergence of the Third Age -- 7. Hostile and Demeaning Descriptions of the Elderly -- 8. The Insufficiency of the Family Group -- in the Past and in the Present -- 9. Retirement and its Social History: Kin and Collectivity in Support of the Old -- 10. The General Theory of the Third Age -- 11. The Obsolescence of the Educational System; the University of the Third Age -- 12. The Burden of the Elderly and Paying for Your Own Third Age -- 13. The Responsibilities of Older British People.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain