Transitions and transformations : cultural perspectives on aging and the life course /

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Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lynch, Caitrin (Editor ), Danely, Jason (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:Life course, culture and aging ; v. 1.
Temas:
Aging > Cross-cultural studies.
Aging > Social aspects.
Life cycle, Human.
Older people.
Quality of life.
Cross-cultural studies.
Aged
Socioeconomic Factors
Aging > psychology
Quality of Life
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Vieillissement > Aspect social.
Étapes de la vie.
Personnes âgées.
Qualité de la vie.
Études transculturelles.
elderly.
quality of life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Quality of life
Older people
Cross-cultural studies
Aging
Aging > Social aspects
Life cycle, Human
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Transitions and transformations : paradigms, perspectives, and possibilities / Jason Danely and Caitrin Lynch
  • 1. Changes in the life course : strengths and stages / Mary Catherine Bateson
  • 2. Narrating pain and seeking continuity : a life-course approach to chronic pain management / Lindsey Martin
  • 3. Venting anger from the body during Gengnianqi : meanings of midlife transition among Chinese women in reform-era Beijing / Jeanne L. Shea
  • 4. "I don't want to be like my father" : masculinity, modernity, and intergenerational relationships in Mexico / Emily Wentzell
  • 5. Shifting moral ideals of aging in Poland : suffering, self-actualization, and the nation / Jessica C. Robbins
  • 6. A window into Dutch life and death : euthanasia and end-of-life in the public-private space of home / Frances Norwood
  • 7. Temporality, spirituality, and the life course in an aging Japan / Jason Danely
  • 8. "I have to stay healthy" : elder caregiving and the third age in a Brazilian community / Diana De G. Brown
  • 9. Grandmothering in life-course perspective : a study of Puerto Rican grandmothers raising grandchildren in the United States / Marta B. Rodríguez-Galán
  • 10. Care work and property transfers : intergenerational family obligations in Sri Lanka / Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • 11. Personhood, appropriate dependence, and the rise of eldercare institutions in India / Sarah Lamb
  • 12. Membership and mattering : agency and work in a New England factory / Caitrin Lynch
  • 13. Life courses of indebtedness in rural Nigeria / Jane I. Guyer and Kabiru K. Salami
  • Afterword : On generations and aging : "fresh contact" of a different sort / Jennifer Cole.

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