Book Description
Nodding to popular culture, history, science, and literature, a passionate and persuasive case is made for removing our ageist blinders and seeing old age as a developmental stage of life.
Author : William H. Thomas
Publisher : Publisher:VanderWyk&Burnham
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781889242200
Nodding to popular culture, history, science, and literature, a passionate and persuasive case is made for removing our ageist blinders and seeing old age as a developmental stage of life.
Author : Elina Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781509882274
Children's Book of the Week in The TelegraphA very funny and lovable picture book tribute to grandparents and older people.When you're small, everybody bigger than you seems really old. But does being older have to mean being boring, or slow, or quiet? NO! Elina Ellis' wonderful illustrations reveal that the age you are makes no difference to how amazing you can be.From the winner of the Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2017, The Truth About Old People is an instant favourite with children and grown-ups that tackles ageism without being preachy. Elina has a great talent for characterful illustration: you'll feel like you've known this family all your life.
Author : William H. Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780989601139
Principia Senescent explores how the next generation of innovation will leverage disruptive insights into the personal experience of aging, advances in digital technology and the effective promotion of a new cultural narratives that normalize growth and development across the lifespan.
Author : William H. Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9780615576053
Author : Ethel Shanas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,27 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 : Peter Townsend
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000936600
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East London. Part one shows that most people are members of closely-knit extended families of three generations, often living in separate households in adjoining streets. The life of these families is of absorbing interest and the social structure of the home, the system of family care and the domestic, economic and social relationships between husbands and their wives, and between old people and their children and brothers and sisters, are carefully analysed. Part two discusses the social problems of old age against this background. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and gerontology.
Author : Jennie Keith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1982-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226429652
"An American anthropologist, Jennie Keith . . . went to live for twelve months in a French housing scheme for retired people and as a participant observer conducted a study in community creation. This book, in which she describes and analyses her experience, is a delight. It is scholarly and draws on a wide range of studies of similar residences and other collectives; it is also vivid, funny, sad and entertaining."—Marie Borland, British Journal of Social Work
Author : John Macnicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107115183
This book examines the effect of neoliberalism on the recent ageing and social policy agenda in the UK and the USA.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Old age pensions
ISBN :
Author : Herbert Blumer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412825672
Tamotsu Shibutani is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Social Processes: An Introduction to Sociology and Improvised News: A Sociological Study of Rumor.