The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology
- The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology
- Dale Dannefer / Case Western Reserve University & Chris Phillipson / University of Keele
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- August 2010
€90.00 - 680 pages
- ISBN 9781412934640
This volume reflects the emergence of ageing as a global concern, including chapters by international scholars from Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. It provides a comprehensive overview of key trends and issues in the field, drawing upon the full range of social science disciplines.
The Handbook is organized into five parts, each exploring different aspects of research into social aspects of ageing:
- Disciplinary overviews: summaries of findings from key disciplinary areas within social gerontology
- Social relationships and social differences: topics include: social inequality, gender and ageing, the role of religion, inter-generational ties, social networks, and friendships in later life.
- Individual characteristics and change in later life: chapters in this section examine different aspects of individual aging, including self and identity, cognitive processes, and biosocial interactions and their impact on physical and psychological aging.
- Comparative perspectives and cultural innovations: topics in this section include: ageing and development, ageing in a global context, migration, and cross-cultural perspectives on grandparenthood.
- Policy issues: The final section examines some of the main policy concerns affecting older people across the world. Topics include: developments in social policy, long-term care, technology and older people, end of life issues, work and retirement, crime and older people, and the politics of old age.
This will be essential reading for all students, researchers and policy-makers concerned with the major issues influencing the lives of older people across the globe.
“This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly migration. The authors constitute a ‘Who’s Who’ of international gerontology, and the focus on globalization and aging is unique among Handbooks today. This Handbook should be in the library of every social gerontologist” — Vern L. Bengtson, University of Southern California
Table of Contents
| Section One: Fundamental and Disciplinary Perspectives on Ageing | |
| The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology | Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. |
| Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing | W. Andrew Achenbaum |
| The Economics of Ageing | James H. Schulz |
| Social Anthropology and Ageing | Christine L. Fry |
| The Demography of Ageing | Christina Victor |
| Epidemiology of Ageing | Dawn Alley and Eileen Crimmins |
| Disability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality | Jessica Kelley-Moore |
| Environmental Perspectives on Ageing | Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank Oswald |
| Section Two: Ageing and Social Structure | |
| Age and Inequality in Global Context | Angela M. O’Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie Roth |
| Gender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization | Toni Calasanti |
| Ageing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas | Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca Wong |
| Religion and Age | Peter G. Coleman |
| Intergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France | Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-Donfut |
| Family and Age in a Global Perspective | Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth Katz |
| Intergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives | Leng Leng Thang |
| Societal Dynamics in Personal Networks | Theo van Tilburg and Fleur Thomése |
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives | Dana Rosenfeld |
| Friendship and Ageing | Graham Allan |
| Section Three: Ageing and Individual Change | |
| Age, Self and Identity in the Global Century | Jon Hendricks |
| Social Structure, Cognition and Ageing | Duane F. Alwin |
| Stress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer | Eva Kahana and Boaz Kahana |
| Agency and Social Structure in Ageing in Life Course Research | Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke |
| Age, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom | Monika Ardelt |
| Loneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives | Marja Jylh� and Marja Saarenheimo |
| Biosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late Life Health Status | Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre Marquis |
| Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context | Danny George and Peter Whitehouse |
| Socio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies | Stephen Katz |
| Time and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues | Jan Baars |
| Section Four: Ageing, Culture and Development | |
| Ageing and International Development | Peter Lloyd-Sherlock |
| Migration and Age | Tony Warnes |
| Global Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa | Isabella Aboderin |
| Population Ageing and Old Age Insurance in China | Zeng Yi and Linda K. George |
| Ageing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region | David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak Cheng |
| The Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective | Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk |
| A Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence | Kendig, H. and Browning, C. |
| Social Dimensions of Anti-Ageing Science and Medicine | Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. Fishman |
| The New Ageing Enterprise | Harry R. Moody |
| Section Five: Ageing and Social Policy | |
| Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe | Thomas Scharf |
| Globalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective | Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace |
| Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives | Michael Fine and Sally Keeling |
| Cross National Trends in Work and Retirement | Philip Taylor |
| Continuous and Long-Term Care: European Perspectives | Caroline Glendinning |
| Long-term Care in China and Japan | Yun Zhou and Yuzhi Liu |
| Ageing and Quality of Life in Europe | Alan Walker |
| Later Life and Imprisonment | Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. Aday |
| Ageing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the ‘Century of the City’ | Chris Phillipson |
| Technology and Older People | Claudine McCreadie |
| End of Life Issues | Liz Lloyd |
| Ethics and Old Age: The Second Generation | Martha Holstein |
| The Politics of Ageing | Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza |