Contexts of ageing : class, cohort and community / Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs

Author: Gilleard, C. J.
Additional Titles: Contexts of aging
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity, 2005.
Physical Description: viii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Higgs, Paul

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Contents

Class, modernity and the lifecourse -- The nature of class in later life -- Cohort and generation and the study of social change -- Later life and the two generational fields of modernity -- Community and the nature of belonging -- Community in later life -- Fog-lamps and Leitmotifs.

Subject(s)

Older people—Social conditions
Retirees—Social conditions
Retirement
Aging—Social aspects
Generations

ISBN

0745629490
0745629504 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-196) and index.

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