| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Social inequality and the ageing process; Being old in different societies: varieties of ways to be an elderly person; Changing life-course patterns; Old age and the symbolic order; Social theories of inequality: gender, race, class and age; Numbers and justice: who's afraid of an ageing population?; Social theories of ageing; The reproduction of inequality: power, structured dependence and the life course; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects -- United States
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Equality -- United States
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Older people -- United States.
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Aging -- Social aspects
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Equality
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Older people
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203214756 |
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0203214757 |
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