Aging and life course transitions
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary perspective
By: edited by Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams ; foreword by Mortimer Herbert Appley.
Contributors: Hareven, Tamara K.; Adams, Kathleen J.; Clark University (Worcester, Mass.); Conference on Aging and the Life Course in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspective (1979 : Walferdange, Luxembourg)
Series: Adult development and aging
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Aging -- Congresses; Life cycle, Human -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Based on papers presented at the Conference on Aging and the Life Course in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspective, held in Walferdange, Luxembourg, in June 1979 and sponsored jointly by Clark University and the Government of Luxembourg.
Table of contents: title: The life course and aging in historical perspective / Tamara K. Hareven; title: Biography and identity / Leopold Rosenmayr; title: Discontinuities in the study of aging / Leonard I. Pearlin; title: Historical experiences in the later years / Glen H. Elder, Jr.; title: Resistance at forty-eight / David W. Plath; title: The life course approach as a challenge to the social sciences / Daniel Bertaux; title: Individual time, social time, and intellectual aging / Gisela Labouvie-Vief; title: Gerontology in a dynamic society / Lars Tornstam; title: Old age, retirement, and the social class structure / Anne-Marie Guillemard; title: Some new aspects of aging in Britain / David Eversley.