The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field over the past 30 years. The volume represents an indispensable source of the freshest and highest standard scholarship for scholars, policy makers, and aging professionals alike. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging contains 45 far-reaching chapters, authored by nearly 80 of the most renowned experts, on the most pressing topics related to aging today. With its recurring attention to the social forces that shape human aging, and the social consequences and policy implications of it, the contents will be of interest to everyone who cares about what aging means for individuals, families, and societies.The chapters of the Handbook of Sociology ofAging illustrate the field’s extraordinary breadth and depth, which has neverbefore been represented in a single volume. Its contributions address topics that range from foundational matters, such as classic and contemporary theories and methods, to topics of longstanding and emergent interest, such as socialdiversity and inequalities, social relationships, social institutions, economies and governments, social vulnerabilities, public health, and care arrangements. The volume closes with a set of personal essays by senior scholars who share their experiences and hopes for the field, and an essay by the editors that provides a roadmap for the decade ahead. The Handbook of Sociology of Aging showcases the very best that sociology has to offer the study of human aging. . Contributors with interdisciplinary backgrounds, to present the full scopeof research Synthesizes and combines the research on Aging and the Life Course into one volume. Three step approach considers the social phenomena, effect on the life course, and relavent social policies. INDICE: Preface. Scholarly Forward. Policy Forward. I.áHISTORICAL TRENDS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING. Trends in the Sociology of Aging: Thirty Year Observations. ááII.THEORIES AND METHODS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING. Theoretical Perspectives on the Sociology of Aging. Aging Individuals, Families, and Societies:Micro-Meso-Macro Linkages in the Life Course. -áWidening the View: Capturing “Unobserved” Heterogeneity in Studies of Age and the Life Course.-á III.SOCIALDIVERSITY AND INEQUALITIES OF AGING. áGender and Aging.-Race, Ethnicity, and Aging. Immigration, Aging, and Health in the United States. Global Aging.-áDiversity andáFamily Relations in an Aging Society. áIV. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ANDAGING. Social Relations and Aging.-á Intergenerational Relations in Later-Life Families. The Midlife Financial Squeeze: Intergenerational Transfers of Financial Resources within Aging Families.-á The Demography of Unions Among Older Americans, 1980–Present: A Family Change Approach. V.SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND AGING. Rethinking Retirement. áLearning and Aging.-á The Midlife Years: Human Capital and Job Mobility. áThe Changing Worlds of Family and Work. áDeveloping Age-Friendly Communities: New Approaches to Growing Old in Urban Environments.VI. ááááá ECONOMIES, GOVERNMENT, AND AGING.-á Crises and Old Age Politics. Welfare States: Protecting or Risking Old Age. Volunteering in Later Life: From Disengagement to Civic Engagement.-áBusiness and Aging: The Boomer Effect on Consumers and Marketing.-áConsumption and Aging.-VII.áSOCIAL VULNERABILITIES AND AGING. Planning for Old Age.-áResponses of the Long-Term Care System to Recent Natural Disasters.-Elder Mistreatment. Crime, the Law, and Aging.-Aging Veterans: Needs and Provisions. VIII. PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING. Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities?.-áMental Health and Aging: A Life-Course Perspective.-áAging with HIV/AIDS. Obesity: A Sociological Examination.-áReligious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk. IX. CARE ARRANGEMENTS AND AGING. Civil Society and Eldercare in Post-Traditional Society.-áPopulation Aging, Health Systems, and Equity: Shared Challenges for the United States and Canada.-Long-Term Care: Tradition and Innovation. Caregiving and the Life Course: Connecting the Personal and the Public. X. SOCIOLOGICAL LIVES: PERSONALREFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING. Gerontology with a “J”: Personal Reflections on Theory-Building in the Sociology of Aging. The Sociology of Aging and the Life Course Comes of Age. Long Time Coming, Not Here Yet: The Possibilities of the Social in Age and Life Course Studies. Looking Back: My Half Century as a Sociologist of Aging and Society. As Time Goes By: Gerontological and Life Course Musings.-áStudying Age Across Borders. Living the Gendered Life Course in Time and Space. XI. THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGING- áSociology ofAging in the Decade Ahead. About the Editors and Contributors.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-7373-3
- Editorial: Springer New York
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 792
- Fecha Publicación: 29/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés