Ways of Aging - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631230580 ISBN 13: 9780631230588

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday experiences, these essays draw from original case studies to look at the diverse ways of growing and being older.

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• Collects ten original essays on the aging experience, written by prominent social gerontologists.
  
• Highlights diverse ways of growing and being older.
  
• Offers detailed portraits of a broad range of experiences, including those of the homeless, the retirement community, sexual nonconformists, and the disabled.
  
• Addresses stereotypes of the aging process and provides diverse examples of individual experiences.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Ways of Aging is an engaging collection of ten original essays on the experience of aging. Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday life, these essays draw from original case studies to feature diverse ways of growing and being older. Through in-depth interviews and first-person accounts, each essay gives a voice to the elderly, stressing the distinct and assorted identities that people develop as they grow older under different circumstances.

In straightforward and compelling prose, the authors feature the varied experiences of widows, African Americans, Native Americans, nursing home residents, gay and lesbian elders, and others. The essays provide vivid illustrations of both the complex differences of the aging experience and the surprising commonalities. The theme of a diverse, multifaceted aging experience links the various presentations.

Countering familiar stereotypes, Ways of Aging offers a unique perspective on the different pathways that may be taken through the later years.

About the Author:

Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is editor of the Journal of Aging Studies and the author or editor of 20 books, including Oldtimers and Alzheimer’s (1986), Speaking of Life (1993), and Living and Dying at Murray Manor (1997).

James A. Holstein is Professor of Sociology at Marquette University and the editor of Social Problems. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Court-Ordered Insanity (1993), Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims Reconsidering Social Constructionism (1993), and Social Problems in Everyday Life (1997).

The editors have previously collaborated on What is Family? (1990), Constructing the Life Course (1994), The Active Interview (1995), The New Language of Qualitative Method (1997), The Self We Live By (1999), and Aging and Everyday Life (Blackwell, 2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631230580
• ISBN 13: 9780631230588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Gubrium Jaber F, Holstein James A