Product details
ISBN
9781857282634
Published
1995-11-30
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
300 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
U, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
224
Author
Biographical note
John A Vincent, University of Exeter.
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.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses in social stratification and social theory, as well as students and researchers in social policy, social welfare and health with an interest in the study of ageing.
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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.
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Introduction 1 Social inequality and the ageing process 2 Being old in different societies: varieties of ways to be an elderly person 3 Changing life-course patterns 4 Old age and the symbolic order 5 Social theories of inequality: gender, race, class and age 6 Numbers and justice: who’s afraid of an ageing population? 7 Social theories of ageing 8 The reproduction of inequality: power, structured dependence and the life course
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Product details
ISBN
9781857282634
Published
1995-11-30
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
300 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
U, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
224
Author