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- catalog contributor b1403327.
- catalog contributor b1403328.
- catalog created "c1980.".
- catalog date "1980".
- catalog date "c1980.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1980.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 276-295.".
- catalog description "Chapter 1: Theoretical perspectives -- Introduction -- The three theoretical perspectives -- The age structure of modern society -- Social theories of old age -- Being old in modern society -- Chapter 2: Economic security in old age -- Introduction -- Economic fate of old age -- Income inequality, age and diachronic solidarity in the United States -- The effect of retirement on income in the United States: abandonment or liberation? -- Caring for the elderly: the United States in cross-national comparative perspective -- The economic position of older Americans summed up -- Chapter 3: The politics of aging -- Introduction --- Political orientations and attitudes -- Political behavior -- Intergenerational conflict or cooperation -- Citizenship and social identity -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Retirement: an emerging social institution -- Introduction -- Old people and work in preindustrial societies -- The rise of retirement -- ".
- catalog description "Retirement in contemporary societies: mandatory of voluntary? -- Reactions to retirement -- Beyond performance: retirement as an emerging social institution -- Chapter 5: Older people in family life -- Introduction -- The concept of family and traditional and modern polar types -- Old people and the family in contemporary industrial societies -- Aging and the family in the United States -- The family and the state -- The family: more than intimacy at a distance -- Chapter 6: On dying: premature social abandonment -- Introduction -- Death in modern society -- Dying -- Being unprepared for death -- The hospital: organizational inadequacy for dying -- Physicians and nurses: lack of psychological training for terminal care -- The consequence: premature social abandonment of the dying -- The hospice: attempts to integrate dying with living -- Chapter 7: On death and bereavement: liberation and abandonment -- Introduction -- The personal experience of death: Liberation -- ".
- catalog description "The nature of grief and its social setting -- The modern funeral: some functions missed, some fulfilled -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Growing old: bonds that break, bonds that hold -- Introduction -- The syndrome of old age: a descriptive synthesis -- Contrasts between the nations: evaluation of the American way of growing old -- The modern fate of growing old.".
- catalog extent "x, 306 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Growing old.".
- catalog identifier "0133677974".
- catalog isFormatOf "Growing old.".
- catalog isPartOf "Prentice-Hall series in sociology".
- catalog issued "1980".
- catalog issued "c1980.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall,".
- catalog relation "Growing old.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Death.".
- catalog subject "HQ1061 .B38".
- catalog subject "Old age Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Old age.".
- catalog subject "Older people Family relationships United States.".
- catalog subject "Older people United States Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Older people United States Family relationships.".
- catalog subject "Retirement United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Chapter 1: Theoretical perspectives -- Introduction -- The three theoretical perspectives -- The age structure of modern society -- Social theories of old age -- Being old in modern society -- Chapter 2: Economic security in old age -- Introduction -- Economic fate of old age -- Income inequality, age and diachronic solidarity in the United States -- The effect of retirement on income in the United States: abandonment or liberation? -- Caring for the elderly: the United States in cross-national comparative perspective -- The economic position of older Americans summed up -- Chapter 3: The politics of aging -- Introduction --- Political orientations and attitudes -- Political behavior -- Intergenerational conflict or cooperation -- Citizenship and social identity -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Retirement: an emerging social institution -- Introduction -- Old people and work in preindustrial societies -- The rise of retirement -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Retirement in contemporary societies: mandatory of voluntary? -- Reactions to retirement -- Beyond performance: retirement as an emerging social institution -- Chapter 5: Older people in family life -- Introduction -- The concept of family and traditional and modern polar types -- Old people and the family in contemporary industrial societies -- Aging and the family in the United States -- The family and the state -- The family: more than intimacy at a distance -- Chapter 6: On dying: premature social abandonment -- Introduction -- Death in modern society -- Dying -- Being unprepared for death -- The hospital: organizational inadequacy for dying -- Physicians and nurses: lack of psychological training for terminal care -- The consequence: premature social abandonment of the dying -- The hospice: attempts to integrate dying with living -- Chapter 7: On death and bereavement: liberation and abandonment -- Introduction -- The personal experience of death: Liberation -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The nature of grief and its social setting -- The modern funeral: some functions missed, some fulfilled -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Growing old: bonds that break, bonds that hold -- Introduction -- The syndrome of old age: a descriptive synthesis -- Contrasts between the nations: evaluation of the American way of growing old -- The modern fate of growing old.".
- catalog title "Growing old : a societal perspective / Martha Baum, Rainer C. Baum.".
- catalog type "text".