The New Neighborhood Senior Center : Redefining Social and Service Roles for the Baby Boom Generation /

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"In this book, ethnographic work at a working-class senior center in Queens, NY, is used as a case study to examine the role of social structure, not only upon the life stories of older individuals attending the center, but in affecting and being affected by changes at the level of the center,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weil, Joyce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Senior centers.
Older people > Services for.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Personnes âgees > Services > États-Unis.
Personnes âgees > Services > New York (État)
Centres communautaires pour personnes âgees > États-Unis.
Centres communautaires pour personnes âgees > New York (État)
Older people > Services for > United States.
Older people > Services for > New York (State)
Baby boom generation > United States > Service for.
Baby boom generation > New York (State) > Service for.
Senior centers > United States.
Senior centers > New York (State)
United States.
New York (State)
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The History of Senior Centers
  • 2. The Case of the Center before Shuttering
  • 3. Reconstructing Shuttering in a Larger Social Context
  • 4. The Case of the Center as It Is Shuttered
  • 5. The Organizational Embeddedness of Capital
  • 6. Poor Centers
  • 7. Reconceptualizing Centers
  • 8. Beyond Rebranding
  • Appendix A. Self-Reflection
  • Appendix B: Methods
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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