Later life
Subtitle: the social psychology of aging
By: edited by Victor W. Marshall.
Contributors: Marshall, Victor W.
Publisher: Sage
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Beverly Hills, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Gerontology.; Old age -- Social aspects.; Older people -- Psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Dominant and emerging paradigms in the social psychology of aging / Victor W. Marshall; title: The subjective construction of self and society / Carol D. Ryff; title: Socialization in old age; title: a Meadian perspective / Neena Chappell and Harold L. Orbach; title: Some contributions of symbolic interaction to the study of growing old / Don Spence; title: A sociological perspective on aging and dying / Victor Marshall; title: The old person as stranger / James J. Dowd; title: Social networks and social support / Barry Wellman and Alan Hall; title: Friendships in old age / Sarah H. Matthews; title: The world we forgot / Martin Kohli; title: Comparative perspectives on the microsociology of aging / Vern L. Bengtson.