Invitation to the Life Course

, by Settersten, Richard A.

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ISBN: 9780895032690 | 0895032694
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/2002

Invitation to the Life Course > ISBN13: 9780895032690

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Introduction Invitation to the Life Course: The Promise

(14)

Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

PART I On Life-Course Propositions and Controversies

Propositions and Controversies in Life-Course Scholarship

(34)

Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

PART II Promises for the General Study of Aging and Later Life

The Life Course and Aging: Challenges, Lessons, and New Directions

(36)

Glen H. Elder, Jr.

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson

PART III Promises for Understanding Aging and Later Life in Specific Spheres

The Life-Course Perspective on Work and Retirement

(22)

John C. Henretta

Leisure in Life-Course Perspective

107

(28)

Jon Hendricks

Steven J. Cutler

Interdependent Lives and Relationships in Changing Times: A Life-Course View of Families and Aging

135

(26)

Gunhild O. Hagestad

What Life-Course Perspectives Offer the Study of Aging and Health

161

(30)

Linda K George

PART IV Promises for Social Policy

Rethinking Social Policy: Lessons of a Life-Course Perspective

191

(34)

Richard A. Settersten, Jr.

PART V Promises for Understanding Successful Aging

Contextualizing Successful Aging: New Directions in an Age-Old Search

225

(34)

Eva Kahana

Boaz Kahana

PART VI Further Promises for Scholarship on Aging and Later Life

Whose Life Course Is It, Anyway? Diversity and ``Linked Lives'' in Global Perspective

259

(10)

Dale Dannefer

The Life Course as a Cultural Construct

269

(26)

Christine L. Fry

Age-Related Phenomena: The Interplay of the Ameliorative and the Scientific

295

(32)

Leonard D. Cain

Contributors

327

(4)

Author Index

331

(12)

Subject Index

343

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