TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gubrium,Jaber F.
AU  - Holstein,James A.
TI  - Aging and everyday life
T2  - Blackwell readers in sociology
SN  - 0631217088 (pb : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ1061. A4248 2000
U1  - 305.26 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Malden, Mass.
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Older people
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Aging
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Pt. I; Conceptualizing the Aging Experience --; 1; The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images --; 2; The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation --; 3; Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement --; 4; A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology --; 5; A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging --; Further Reading to Part I --; Pt. II; Aging and Identity --; 6; A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness between Fifty and Sixty Years Old --; 7; Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts --; 8; The Ageless Self --; Further Reading to Part II --; Pt. III; Work and Retirement --; 9; Retirement as a Social Role --; 10; The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support in a Modern Life Passage --; 11; "One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels" --; 12; "Making It" --; Further Reading to Part III --; Pt. IV; Interpersonal Relationships --; 13; Friendship Styles --; 14; The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life --; 15; Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People --; Further Reading to Part IV --; Pt. V; Living Arrangements --; 16; Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885 --; 17; An Old Age Community --; 18; Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home --; Further Reading to Part V --; Pt. VI; The Aging Body --; 19; Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The "Aging" Table Dancer --; 20; Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography --; 21; Stigmatizing a "Normal" Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life --; Further Reading to Part VI --; Pt. VII; The Aging Mind --; 22; Geriatric Ideology: The Myth of the Myth of Senility --; 23; Bringing the Social Back In: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia --; 24; The Mask of Dementia: Images of "Demented Residents" in a Nursing Ward --; Further Reading to Part VII --; Pt. VIII; Caring and Caregiving --; 25; The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation --; 26; The Unencumbered Child: Family Reputations and Responsibilities in the Care of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease --; 27; Nursing Homes as Trouble --; Further Reading to Part VIII --; Pt. IX; Death and Bereavement --; 28; A Death in Due Time: Conviction, Order, and Continuity in Ritual Drama --; 29; Death in Very Old Age: A Personal Journey of Caregiving --; 30; The Social Context of Grief Among Adult Daughters Who Have Lost a Parent --; Further Reading to Part IX --; Index
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