Aging and the Life Course: An Introduction to Social Gerontology - Hardcover

Quadagno , Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0073528226 ISBN 13: 9780073528229

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2010

Synopsis

Aging and the Life Course is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text in social gerontology. It provides students with a firm grounding in methodological and theoretical issues associated with aging and examines changes in social roles, relationships and the biological and psychological process that occur as people grow older. It also considers all major life transitions including retirement, widowhood, grandparenting, and changes in living arrangements. In addition, this text considers the economic and political issues that influence the context in which people grow old. Although the primary focus is on the U.S., considerable material on aging worldwide is included. Unique features include four featured boxes, a life course perspective and an emphasis on inequality by race, ethnicity and gender.

About this title

About the Author:

Award-winning author Jill Quadagno is Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, where she holds the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Chair in Social Gerontology. She is the author of more than 50 articles and 12 books on aging and social policy issues.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0073528226
• ISBN 13: 9780073528229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 493