Written and edited by social gerontologists, and focusing on everyday experiences, these essays draw from original case studies to look at the diverse ways of growing and being older.
- Collects ten original essays on the aging experience, written by prominent social gerontologists.
- Highlights diverse ways of growing and being older.
- Offers detailed portraits of a broad range of experiences, including those of the homeless, the retirement community, sexual nonconformists, and the disabled.
- Addresses stereotypes of the aging process and provides diverse examples of individual experiences.
Inhoudsopgave
Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Beyond Stereotypes 3
Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Part I Persistence 11
1 Narratives of Forgiveness in Old Age 13
Helen K. Black
2 Elderhood in Contemporary Lakota Society 36
Joan Weibel-Orlando
3 Claiming Identity in a Nursing Home 58
Debora A. Patemiti
Part II Adaptation 75
4 Three Childless Men’s Pathways into Old Age 77
Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox
5 Constructing Community from Troubles 96
Christopher A. Faircloth
6 Family Lives of Aging Black Americans 111
Colleen L. Johnson and Barbara M. Barer
Part Ill Change 133
7 Aging and Change in a Religious Community 135
Sarah Matthews
8 Identity Careers of Older Gay Men and Lesbians 160
Dana Rosenfeld
9 Expectations and Experiences of Widowhood 182
Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard
Epilogue 201
10 Positive Aging 203
Mary Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen
Index 225
Over de auteur
Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is editor of the Journal of Aging Studies and the author or editor of 20 books, including Oldtimers and Alzheimer’s (1986), Speaking of Life (1993), and Living and Dying at Murray Manor (1997).
James A. Holstein is Professor of Sociology at Marquette University and the editor of Social Problems. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Court-Ordered Insanity (1993), Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims Reconsidering Social Constructionism (1993), and Social Problems in Everyday Life (1997).
The editors have previously collaborated on What is Family? (1990), Constructing the Life Course (1994), The Active Interview (1995), The New Language of Qualitative Method (1997), The Self We Live By (1999), and Aging and Everyday Life (Blackwell, 2000).
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