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Aging and Everyday Life

, by Gubrium, Jaber F.; Holstein, James A.

Aging and Everyday Life by Gubrium, Jaber F.; Holstein, James A., 9780631217084

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ISBN: 9780631217084 | 0631217088
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/11/2000

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Aging and Everyday Life presents a balanced and realistic view of the aging experience. The research in this book reveals that much, if not most, of the triumphs and trials experienced in later years are not unlike those confronted at other points in life. Just like younger people, the elderly experience both change and stability, shedding old roles and entering new ones. The process takes place in varied spheres of life: the worlds of home and family, work, and friendship.This thoughtful, engaging text brings together twenty-eight essays by leading researchers in social gerontology to explore the everyday aspects of aging. Readers will come away viewing the elderly as people whose lives are as complex and diverse, and therefore as nuanced as any.

List of Contributors

viii

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(12)

Jaber F. Gubrium

James A. Holstein

Part I Conceptualizing the Aging Experience

13

(50)

The Cultural Trap: The Language of Images

15

(4)

Haim Hazan

The Personal Trap: The Language of Self-Presentation

19

(6)

Haim Hazan

Further Thoughts on the Theory of Disengagement

25

(15)

Elaine Cumming

A Current Theoretical Issue in Social Gerontology

40

(7)

Arnold M. Rose

A Continuity Theory of Normal Aging

47

(16)

Robert C. Atchley

Further Reading to Part I

62

(1)

Part II Aging and Identity

63

(50)

A Decade of Reminders: Changing Age Consciousness between Fifty and Sixty Years Old

65

(22)

David A. Karp

Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts

87

(16)

Deborah Kestin Van Den Hoonard

The Ageless Self

103

(10)

Sharon R. Kaufman

Further Reading to Part II

112

(1)

Part III Work and Retirement

113

(40)

Retirement as a Social Role

115

(10)

Robert C. Atchley

The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement: Ritual and Support in a Modern Life Passage

125

(13)

Joel Savishinsky

``One of Your Better Low-Class Hotels''

138

(7)

Joyce Stephens

``Making It''

145

(8)

Joyce Stephens

Further Reading to Part III

151

(2)

Part IV Interpersonal Relationships

153

(62)

Friendship Styles

155

(20)

Sarah H. Matthews

The Significance of Work Friends in Late Life

175

(18)

Doris Francis

Filial Obligations and Kin Support for Elderly People

193

(22)

Janet Finch

Jennifer Mason

Further Reading to Part IV

214

(1)

Part V Living Arrangements

215

(60)

Parental Dependence and Filial Responsibility in the Nineteenth Century: Hial Hawley and Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1884-1885

217

(14)

Emily K. Abel

An Old Age Community

231

(24)

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Resisting Institutionalization: Constructing Old Age and Negotiating Home

255

(20)

Pia C. Kontos

Further Reading to Part V

273

(2)

Part VI The Aging Body

275

(54)

Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The ``Aging'' Table Dancer

277

(11)

Carol Rambo Ronai

Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography

288

(18)

Mary M. Gergen

Kenneth J. Gergen

Stigmatizing a ``Normal'' Condition: Urinary Incontinence in Late Life

306

(23)

Linda S. Mitteness

Judith C. Barker

Further Reading to Part VI

328

(1)

Part VII The Aging Mind

329

(42)

Geriatric Ideology: The Myth of the Myth of Senility

331

(9)

James S. Goodwin

Bringing the Social Back In: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia

340

(17)

Karen A. Lyman

The Mask of Dementia: Images of ``Demented Residents'' in a Nursing Ward

357

(14)

Hava Golander

Aviad E. Raz

Further Reading to Part VII

370

(1)

Part VIII Caring and Caregiving

371

(44)

The Dependent Elderly, Home Health Care, and Strategies of Household Adaptation

373

(13)

Steven M. Albert

The Unencumbered Child: Family Reputations and Responsibilities in the Care of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease

386

(15)

Judith Globerman

Nursing Homes as Trouble

401

(14)

Timothy Diamond

Further Reading to Part VIII

413

(2)

Part IX Death and Bereavement

415

(52)

A Death in Due Time: Conviction, Order, and Continuity in Ritual Drama

417

(23)

Barbara Myerhoff

Death in Very Old Age: A Personal Journey of Caregiving

440

(12)

Betty Risteen Hasselkus

The Social Context of Grief Among Adult Daughters Who Have Lost a Parent

452

(15)

Jennifer Klapper

Sidney Moss

Miriam Moss

Robert L. Rubinstein

Further Reading to Part IX

466

(1)

Index

467

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