John A Vincent

Inequality And Old Age (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of ageing in relation to identity formation, inequality and stratification. The book outlines a theory of social inequality which encompasses those inequalities associated with old age - in addition to class, gender, race and ethnicity.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses in social stratification and social theory, as well as students and researchers in social policy, social welfare and health with an interest in the study of ageing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135367947
• Artikelnr.: 42830653

Autorenporträt

John A Vincent, University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Social inequality and the ageing process 2 Being old in
different societies: varieties of ways to be an elderly person 3 Changing
life-course patterns 4 Old age and the symbolic order 5 Social theories of
inequality: gender, race, class and age 6 Numbers and justice: who's afraid
of an ageing population? 7 Social theories of ageing 8 The reproduction of
inequality: power, structured dependence and the life course