Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Baum, Rainer C.

Description

1. x, 306 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Prentice-Hall series in sociology

Uniform title

1. Prentice-Hall series in sociology.

Subject

1. Old age
2. Retirement > United States
3. Older people > United States > Economic conditions
4. Older people > Family relationships > United States
5. Old age > Political aspects > United States
6. Death
7. Older people > United States > Family relationships
8. Death
9. old age
10. deaths
11. Old age > Political aspects
12. Older people > Economic conditions
13. Older people > Family relationships
14. Retirement
15. Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
16. Sociale aspecten
17. United States

Contents

1. Chapter 1: Theoretical perspectives -- Introduction -- The three theoretical perspectives -- The age structure of modern society -- Social theories of old age -- Being old in modern society -- Chapter 2: Economic security in old age -- Introduction -- Economic fate of old age -- Income inequality, age and diachronic solidarity in the United States -- The effect of retirement on income in the United States: abandonment or liberation? -- Caring for the elderly: the United States in cross-national comparative perspective -- The economic position of older Americans summed up -- Chapter 3: The politics of aging -- Introduction --- Political orientations and attitudes -- Political behavior -- Intergenerational conflict or cooperation -- Citizenship and social identity -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Retirement: an emerging social institution -- Introduction -- Old people and work in preindustrial societies -- The rise of retirement -- Retirement in contemporary societies: mandatory of voluntary? -- Reactions to retirement -- Beyond performance: retirement as an emerging social institution -- Chapter 5: Older people in family life -- Introduction -- The concept of family and traditional and modern polar types -- Old people and the family in contemporary industrial societies -- Aging and the family in the United States -- The family and the state -- The family: more than intimacy at a distance -- Chapter 6: On dying: premature social abandonment -- Introduction -- Death in modern society -- Dying -- Being unprepared for death -- The hospital: organizational inadequacy for dying -- Physicians and nurses: lack of psychological training for terminal care -- The consequence: premature social abandonment of the dying -- The hospice: attempts to integrate dying with living -- Chapter 7: On death and bereavement: liberation and abandonment -- Introduction -- The personal experience of death: Liberation -- The nature of grief and its social setting -- The modern funeral: some functions missed, some fulfilled -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Growing old: bonds that break, bonds that hold -- Introduction -- The syndrome of old age: a descriptive synthesis -- Contrasts between the nations: evaluation of the American way of growing old -- The modern fate of growing old.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 276-295.