Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology

Neugarten, Bernice L. (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0226573826 / ISBN 13: 9780226573823

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1972

About this Item

First edition, third printing. White and gray covers with black and white printing; some wear on edges and corners; areas along the top edge have been scrunched; rubbed. 596 pp., b/w illustrations; clean and unmarked. "The process of aging is receiving an increasing amount of attention from behavioral scientists. 'Middle Age and Aging' is an attempt to organize and select from the proliferation of material available in this field.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226573826
• ISBN 13: 9780226573823
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, Later Printing
• Condition: Good+

About this title

Synopsis

The process of aging is receiving an increasing amount of attention from behavioral scientists. Middle Age and Aging is an attempt to organize and select from the proliferation of material available in this field. The selections in this volume emphasize some of the major topics that lie closest to the problem of what social and psychological adaptations are required as individuals move through the second half of their lives. Major attention is paid to the importance of age-status and age-sex roles; psychological changes in the life-cycle; social-psychological theories of aging; attitudes toward health; changing family roles; work, retirement, and leisure; certain other dimensions of the immediate social environment such as friendships, neighboring patterns, and living arrangements; differences in cultural settings; and perspectives of time and death.

About the Author

Bernice L. Neugarten (1916-2001) was a professor of education and sociology at Northwestern University and professor emeritus of behavioral science at the University of Chicago. She served as president of the Gerontological Society. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980. She served on the United States Federal Council on Aging. Neugarten was a key contributor in the 1971 and 1982 White House Conferences on Aging. In 19965 Neugarten was honored with the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology from the American Psychological Association.