Inequality And Old Age.
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
1995.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.