[PDF] The Meanings Of Age eBook

Author : Bernice L. Neugarten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226573830

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Neugarten, who explains and highlights Neugarten's contributions in light of the most recent research in the fields of gerontology and social policy. Carefully edited by Dail A. Neugarten, each chapter presents the reader with Bernice Neugarten's original formulations on topics such as age norms and age constraints, the changing meanings of age, and age-neutral social policy.

Author : Bernice L. Neugarten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226573847

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Neugarten, who explains and highlights Neugarten's contributions in light of the most recent research in the fields of gerontology and social policy. Carefully edited by Dail A. Neugarten, each chapter presents the reader with Bernice Neugarten's original formulations on topics such as age norms and age constraints, the changing meanings of age, and age-neutral social policy.

Author : Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783039107858

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Age is a complex cross-cutting notion for at least two reasons: the intricate interweaving of its biological and socio-cultural meanings and its dual significance as both a benchmark in an individual's life course and a foundation for social structure. This book offers new perspectives on age and ageing by combining achievements in the biological sciences and their different applications and interpretations in demography, anthropology, psychology and other pertinent disciplines. Thirty contributors from these various fields revisit the measures and the biological models of ageing, the borderline between normal and pathological ageing, the pertinence of chronological age as a benchmark along the life course, its interrelations with psychological development, with reproductive phases and other life events, the «normalizing» role ascribed by age classes and the risk of falling into ageism, the cross-cultural diversity and temporal changes of its meanings, the gender divide (real and perceived), as well as the rights that should be enjoyed at each age.

Author : G. Langlois
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137356618

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The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon) to revisit traditional conceptions of meaning.

Author : Joan Cadden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1995-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521483780

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This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in cultural assumptions about gender.

Author : Leslie A. Morgan
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826119379

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Author : Robert Stuart Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195133390

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The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead, men and women have the freedom, and the need, to find new activities that they can imbue with meaning. The term, "Third Age" has been given to this time of life during which for most there is relatively good health, financial stability, and reduced family obligations. The problems and possibilities of this "Third Age" serve as the material for this book. How do older people decide how to deploy their continued vitality, now that they are free from the demands of work and children? How do they find meaning in daily life? In this book, scholars from several disciplines consider the way in which meaning can be found in this important stage of later life. They discuss sociological, psychological, and religious determinants of responses to the challenges of finding meaningful activity after retirement.