224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.; This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate sociology courses in social stratification and social theory, as well as students and... Read more
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
Biography
John A Vincent, University of Exeter.
