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This book provides an overview of the key issues arising from this demographic change, asking questions such as: * What if any, are the universal characteristics of the ageing experience? * What different ways is it possible to grow old?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Colección: | Key ideas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; The experience of old age; The social construction of old age; The importance of pensions in establishing the modern category 'old age'; Social cues to old age; A cross-cultural comparison of the construction of old age; Standard of living and quality of life in old age; Women and widows; Expectations of old age; The succession of generations; What do we mean by generation?; Generation, community and inequality; The changing experience of different historical cohorts.
- The interaction of generational expectationsGenerations and social change; The social solidarity of generations; Global crises and old age; Older people and poverty; Old age: population and environmental crises; Is there a global demographic crisis?; Conclusion: older people in an unequal world; Old age, equity and intergenerational conflict?; The issue is not demographic the manufacture of a crisis; Globalisation and the nation state, implications for welfare.