Old People in Three Industrial Societies [by] Ethel Shanas [and Others.].
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Older people
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Older people
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Author : Ethel Shanas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 135150245X
Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication in 1929. Old People in Three Industrial Societies may well set similar standards for studies in its fi eld for many years to come. In addition to achieving a signifi cant breakthrough in the progress of socio logical research techniques, the book offers a monumental cross-cultural exposition of the health, family relationships, and social and economic status of the aged in three countries-the United States, Britain, and Denmark.
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Barrier-free design
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 1970
Category : City planning
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Author : Helena Lopata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351471554
Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a historical instance of people born and brought up under conditions that are not likely to be duplicated. Not only the U.S., but many other countries are undergoing modifications in the degrees and forms of urbanization, industrialization, and social complexity.Helena Znaniecki Lopata argues that the way women re-engage society following the death of a husband is different due to their location in the modern social system. She notes that the trends in social structure are toward increasingly voluntaristic engagement in achieved, functionally oriented social roles that are performed in large groups and contain secondary social relations. The cultural background of many societal members prevents the utilization of most resources of the complex urban world, restricting them to a small social life space, with almost automatically prescribed social relations.Those who argue that the elderly are socially isolated contend that this is a result of the natural process of withdrawal of the person and the society from each other. These arguments focus on those who are isolated or lonely and those who lack the skills, money, health, and transportation for engaging or re-engaging society. Lopata's study indicates that this assumption is false for many widows. If such people are to be helped, a fresh view of the relation between the urban, industrial, and complex modern world and its residents is required, and new action programs must be creatively developed. This is a timely, ground-breaking work that addresses and shatters common myths associated with growing old alone in an urban society.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Retirement and the Individual
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Retirement
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Retirement and the Individual
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Retirement
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Employment and Retirement Incomes
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Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Old age pensions
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Legislative hearings
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Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040008399
Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging, a process which had received little attention from any group in the social sciences and virtually none from historians at the time. Starting from the premise that ‘the elderly can and should be active, participant members of their society’ the book examines the ways in which old people were and are viewed by certain key groups. This is done in a series of thematic essays linked by the main theme of a dominant culture in which the elderly and the groups who deal with them were and still are ensnared. This dominant culture is one of denigration of the elderly: the traditional idea of veneration of the elderly is found to be largely mythical. Variations on this theme are dealt with in individual chapters concerned with the elderly in French working-class culture and geriatric medicine. Key groups are studied with an eye to distinct patterns of modernization, which involves particular attention to the working class and middle class as those exposed to the leading edge of change. Women are treated separately, as their aging process involves distinctive elements, which exacerbate the problems of old age. France, with its exceptional percentage of elderly and its low retirement ages, provides much of the material for these essays, the main purpose of which is to indicate those topics for which an historical treatment is vital to our understanding of the elderly and to the formulation of a more positive approach to old age.