Aging, Society, and the Life Course, Fourth Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826119379 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Bad proofing job" according to KY student of life. This textbook contains a lot of information, but was poorly edited. Several typos, and a couple of graphs were repeated, with the correct graph for the reference in text omitted.. kristen said Kindle Version was Disappointing. I bought the kindle version for one of my classes on aging. I had to return it because the book wasn't functional for what I wanted to do. My professor would ask us to read certain pages but there was no table to contents or page numbers to correlate to. Out of frustration, I returned the kindle book and just bought the hard. A good teaching tool, but too many Exhibit errors A Pawtuxet Reader I assign this book for my undergrad class on Aging because it covers a lot of the basic territory and does it well, and is written at an appropriate level for undergrads. I would have liked more focus on physical and psychological aging, but it is a sociology text so the light treatment of those topics is understandable.My m
Doody's Score: 91, 4 StarsThis book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."--The GerontologistThis is a comprehensive textbook for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, detailing the impact of societal forces on the aging process. The book focuses on the diversity of the older population, examining it from micro/macro perspectives in order to understand aging and the
This text encourages students to examine aging from personal, familial, community, societal and global perspectives, including both the positive and negative realities of aging. Key Features: Provides websites of interest at the end of each chapter Presents provocative essays on love, sex, music, medicine, and crime to further expand on chapter contents Provides review questions and key terms as study guides at the end of each chapter " . This latest edition examines significant changes in the field of social gerontology, such as the paradigms of aging and the life course, the baby boomer cohorts as they approach re