Middle Age and Aging

The process of aging is receiving an increasing amount of attention from behavioral scientists. Middle Age and Aging is an attempt to organize and select from the proliferation of material available in this field. The selections in this volume emphasize some of the major topics that lie closest to the problem of what social and psychological adaptations are required as individuals move through the second half of their lives. Major attention is paid to the importance of age-status and age-sex roles; psychological changes in the life-cycle; social-psychological theories of aging; attitudes toward health; changing family roles; work, retirement, and leisure; certain other dimensions of the immediate social environment such as friendships, neighboring patterns, and living arrangements; differences in cultural settings; and perspectives of time and death.
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Middle Age and Aging

The process of aging is receiving an increasing amount of attention from behavioral scientists. Middle Age and Aging is an attempt to organize and select from the proliferation of material available in this field. The selections in this volume emphasize some of the major topics that lie closest to the problem of what social and psychological adaptations are required as individuals move through the second half of their lives. Major attention is paid to the importance of age-status and age-sex roles; psychological changes in the life-cycle; social-psychological theories of aging; attitudes toward health; changing family roles; work, retirement, and leisure; certain other dimensions of the immediate social environment such as friendships, neighboring patterns, and living arrangements; differences in cultural settings; and perspectives of time and death.
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Middle Age and Aging

Middle Age and Aging

by Bernice L. Neugarten (Editor)
Middle Age and Aging

Middle Age and Aging

by Bernice L. Neugarten (Editor)

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The process of aging is receiving an increasing amount of attention from behavioral scientists. Middle Age and Aging is an attempt to organize and select from the proliferation of material available in this field. The selections in this volume emphasize some of the major topics that lie closest to the problem of what social and psychological adaptations are required as individuals move through the second half of their lives. Major attention is paid to the importance of age-status and age-sex roles; psychological changes in the life-cycle; social-psychological theories of aging; attitudes toward health; changing family roles; work, retirement, and leisure; certain other dimensions of the immediate social environment such as friendships, neighboring patterns, and living arrangements; differences in cultural settings; and perspectives of time and death.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226573823
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1968
Series: Reader in Social Psychology
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 603
Product dimensions: (w) x (h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Bernice L. Neugarten (1916-2001) was a professor of education and sociology at Northwestern University and professor emeritus of behavioral science at the University of Chicago. She served as president of the Gerontological Society. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980. She served on the United States Federal Council on Aging. Neugarten was a key contributor in the 1971 and 1982 White House Conferences on Aging. In 19965 Neugarten was honored with the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology from the American Psychological Association.

Table of Contents

Part I. Age Status and Age-Sex Roles
Part II. The Psychology of the Life Cycle
Part III. Social-Psychological Theories of Aging
Part IV. The Social Psychology of Health
Part V. Family Relationships
Part VI. Work, Leisure, and Retirement
Part VII. The Immediate Social Environment
Part VIII. Aging in Other Societies
Part IX. Time, Dying, and Death
Appendixes. Research Strategies
List of Contributors
References

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