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Aging From Birth To Death - Volume 2, Sociotemporal Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Aging From Birth To Death - Volume 2, Sociotemporal Perspectives (Hardcover)
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The ways in which people age from birth to death over the life
course depend upon where and when they live. Much evidence has been
gathered to demonstrate that aging is not an immutable process;
rather, aging varies as social structure varies and changes. But
how does the life course vary? Under what conditions of place and
time do particular individuals age in particular ways? This book, a
companion to Aging from Birth to Death: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives (edited by Matilda White Riley; AAAS Selected
Symposium 30; Westview, 1979), addresses these questions from two
perspectives. From the cross-cultural perspective, anthropologists
and sociologists examine the cultural variability of aging as this
variability reveals the nature and extent of social and cultural
influences on the aging process, the lives of people of all ages,
and the general significance of age norms and age-graded
institutions in society. From the cross-temporal perspective,
historians, sociologists, and demographers examine the impact of
social change both on the process of growing up and growing old and
on the place in society of people of all ages. The authors stress
that the changing society is composed of people who are aging and
who are not only shaped by, but are also continually shaping social
institutions, values, and technologies. Thus, the book provides
deeper understanding of the aging process, of the likely
differences between the lives of past and future generations, and
of the potential for optimizing these future lives.
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